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fj^:rt II. 



BY THE 

ANCIENT LADY, 



i'RLESTON, S. C. 
Edward PRimyTfeiNTER, Stationer & Binder, 149 Meetixc; St, 

1870. 



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BY THE 

ANCIENT LADY, 

AlTTltOR OF '-OTR TORKFATHEBS, THEIR IIOMKS AND TIIKll! Cin KCIIFS.' 

A.C., JlcC. 



CHARLESTON, S. C: 

Edwart. Tetiby, Printer & Btatioxer, 149 IMeetixc STRF.rT. 



ISTO. 






Entered according to an Act of Congres.'*, in the year 1870, l>y 
MRS. !•:. A. POYAS, 

111 the nflir'O of ilie Lil)ran':in of Congre><s at Wa^liington. 



EDWARD PERRY, PKINTEK, 
14<J Meeting St., Charleston. 



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'' Wlicu, Lord, to this our Westeru IuikI, 
Led by Thy providential hand, 

Our wandering fathers came, 
Their ancient homes, their friends in youth, 
vSent forth the heralds of Thy trnth 

To keep them in Thy name. 

" Then through our solitary coast 
The desert features soon were lost ; 

Thy temples there arose. 
Our shores, as culture made them fair, 
Were hallowed by Thy rites, by prayer, 

And blossomed as the rose." 



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OR 



BMABOWB ©JF fHl iPABf 



LETTER. "VI. 



BISHOP SMITH. 



My Dear Young Friends : 

To you of the established Churcli, wlio reverence time- 
lionored ceremonies and authorized forms, this letter may 
be especially acceptable ; to none may it prove tedious or 
dull since we know that there is good in all, and being 
ever careful to call none '' schismatics" shall escape being 
distinguished as bigots. 

Beaufort has long borne the character of Piety, Hospi- 
tality and Politeness. 

Well do we know that much of the best blood of Caro- 
lina continues to flow through the veins of families in 
that district. In times of old, Benjamin, of the house of 
Elliott, was foremost in the work of charity. It was in 
1762 that the clergy of this State formed themselves into 
a Society on the 21st of April, under the influence of 
amiable and pious feelings, such as deserve to be recorded 
to the honor of our nature, for the relief of the widows 
and orphans of the cler^vmen of the Church of Encrlarid. 



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They thought to exclude lay members. New Yorlc, New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania, formed such Societies about 
17G9, and it is highly gratifying to us, the knowledge, 
that amongst the first contributors to those were Colonel 
Henry Laurens, then forty-five years of age ; Mr. Thomas 
Smith, the grand-father of the Mr. Khetts and sister, 
then fifty years old ; also Messrs. Robert Pringle, Thomas 
Lynch and Benjamin Elliott. In 1771, nine years after 
the commencement of our Society, aid was solicited from 
the community. Mr. David Deas joined immediately, and 
at the next meeting Henry Peronneau, Benjamin Dart and 
Henry Middleton, Escj^a., on application were elected mem- 
bers. Dr. Robert Smith, who may, with propriety, be 
called the father of the Clcrcjy Socieiy^ was born in tlie 
county of Norfolk, England, of respectable parents, and 
carefully educated. .He took his Bachelor's degree at the 
age of twenty-one, and was elected to a Fellowship at 
twenty-three. He continued to reside at Cam1)ridge, and 
was ordained Deacon on the 7th of March, and Priest on 
the 21st of December, 1756. From AVilliam Mason, Esq., 
M. P., he received liberal patronage, and from his recom- 
mendation was engaged as an Assistant Minister for St. 
Philip's Church, Charleston. He arrived on the od of 
November, 1757, the Rev. Mr. Andrews liaving resigned 
after a term of three years to leave the province. On the 
resignation of i\\Q Rev. Mr. Clarke, in 1759, Mr. Smith 
was elected to the Rectorship of the Church, having, by 
the faithful performance of his duties, established himself 
in the confidence and esteem of the parishioners. Pre- 
viously to this he had intermarried with Miss Elizabeth 
Paget, of St. Thomas' Parish. When the British com- 
manders approached our coast, not to conciliate, but as 
they believed, to subdue, Mr. Smith convinced them that 
he was not a man to be trifled with, for early in the Revo- 



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lution he sliouldered his musket, and amidst the scenes of 
the greatest danger, did both by precept and example, 
stimulate to intrepid resistance. He was appointed, with 
the approbation of Greneral Lincoln, Chaplain to the Con- 
tinental Hospital in South Carolina; and after the peace, 
when the Cincinnati was established, he became one of its 
members. It is true that the commencement of the mis- 
understanding between the parent country and the colonies 
liad found him a loyal and faithful subject of the British 
realm, in Church and State, but he soon discovered cause 
to change his conduct, and felt it his duty to exert all the 
influence which his character, fortune and station gave 
liim, in animating the minds of his friends and people for 
the approaching conflict. His constant and indefatigabki 
hibors had, by 1768, so impaired his health that he spent 
two years in England. He returned in 1770, resumed the 
duties of his charge, and went no more. At the siege of 
Charles Town, by Sir Henry Clinton, he preached as he 
felt the crisis to require, encouraging the people by his own 
example in the defence of their liberties and homes, by 
going himself to the lines, armed as a common soldier. 
At the surrender of the town he was confined by illness to 
his bed, yet so great was tlie fear of his influence that a 
sentinel, placed over him, was not allowed to rpiit his 
chamber until he had been removed from it, under a 
guard, to be transported to Philadelphia. Blessed with 
opulence, his charities were unbounded ; the needy wept 
his departure with unfeigned sorrow, for benevolence was 
enthroned in his heart. His clerical brothers found in 
him a friend, and mourned in him a father. Many chari- 
table institutions were benefited, both by his exertions and 
liberality, but the Clergy Society, which, with utility 
beyond the reach of praise, gives relief to the bereaved 
widow, and rescues the helpless orphan from the pangs of 



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want and misery, originating with him, was to tlie latest 
hour of his life, fostered with peculiar delight. It was 
originally composed of: First, Alexander Garden, Jr.: 
(nephew of the Commissary who had left the province in 
1756, having been here from 1719.) The nephew came in 
1743, was Minister of St. Thomas and St. Dennis, and 
died in 1783, honored and beloved by all who knew liim, 
after forty years in America. The second was James Har- 
rison, who came in 1752 (tlie 3^ear of the great hurricane) 
as Minister of St. eJames' Goose Creek. He was received 
by the parishioners with great kindness and was frequently 
gratified by tokens of their esteem. He transmitted to 
the Society, May 2d, 1765, the account of tlie Rev. Mr. 
Richard Ludlam's legacy of 1728. Near Groomsville, in 
St. James, there v/as a few years ago an old brick school 
house, where poor children on the Ludlam bounty were 
then taught ; but the funds have been neglected and the 
accounts confused. In 1774, Mr. Harrison resigned the 
Parish, and the Rev. Mr- Edward Ellington was elected in 
1775, he had first been a Missionary at Augusta, Georgia, 
then settled at Beaufort in 1770, and in 75 at Goose 
Creek. He removed back to Georgia in 1793, where he 
did not long survive. Mr. Harrison removed to the Par- 
ish of St. Bartholomew's in 1776, resigned in 1784, and 
died in 1788. The third member, the Rev. Robert Bar- 
ron, who arrived in 1753, preached in St. Bartholomew's 
eleven years as Rector. He died in 1764, deeply lamented 
by his people, and was buried at Pon Pon Chapel. The 
fourth was Winwood Sergeant, who came in 1757. He 
had been Assistant Minister at St. Philip's previously to 
1759, but was from Dorchester, St. George's Parish, in 
1762, when the Society was formed. He retired from 
America in 1767. The fifth was the Rev. Robert Smith, 
afterwards the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in 



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Carolina. He liad reached us in 1757, and was the Rector 
of St. Philip's at the period of Avhicli we write. On his 
landing here the Vestry had presented him with £200. 
He was elected Bishop in 1795, and was consecrated at 
Christ Church, Philadelphia. He died of a fever after a 
lew days illness, in 1801, having entered his 70th year. 
-The sixth, was Robert Cooper, Avho came in 1758, was 
made Rector of Prince Williams', and went to town the 
next year to take upon him the duties of Assistant Minis- 
ter of St. Philip's, he continued such to 1761, when on the 
1st of February he was invited, and accepted of the new 
Church, called St. Michael. The following year he joined 
tlie Clergy Society. But in 1776 refusing to take the 
oath prescribed by law. he removed to England and vv- 
ceived a pension of iilOO", per annum, as a loyalist, and 
afterwards became Rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill. Ho 
died about 1812, aged upwards of eighty years. The 
seventh was John Tonge, who had arrived i]i 1759. He 
was fourteen years Rector of St. Paul's Parish, and died 
in 1778, and was buried near the east end of the Church. 
He left a widow who long survived him, residing in her 
Dutch-roofed, humble habitation, in St. George's Parish, 
not far from Bacon's Bridge. Their only son left a large 
estate in St. Paul's Parish. Eighth, the Rev. Abraham 
Imer, who arrived in 1760, joined in 1762, and died in 
1766, prol>ably he had no cure. The ninth was Joseph 
Dacre Wilton, who came in 1761 ; he lived six years, and 
at his death left his family in great distress, and unfortu- 
nately the Society could give little assistance at that early 
period of its existence. He was the Assistant Minister of 
St. Philip's, and was buried in the Cemetery of that 
Church. The Vestry, '" from their sincere esteem for him, 
who had faithfully and conscientiously performed his 
duty," raised, by subscription, among the inhabitants of 



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Charles Town, the sum of £2177, currency, lor the sup- 
port of his widow and children, Avho were about to return 
to their friends in England. A tomb was erected to his 
memory, the inscription upon which told that lie died on 
the 6th of October, 1767, aged 37 years ; and that he v;as 
universally lamented b}' all who knew him. The tenth 
member was Joseph Stokes, who had come in 1762, and 
died within the same year. Eleventh was Offspring 
Pearce, A. M., who arrived in 1762, and was the ensuing- 
year elected Rector of Prince George's Parish, Winyaw : 
he was both, amiable and pious. On the 24tli of June. 
1767,' he took on him the care of St. George's Dorchester, 
(thus relinquish in<:i; the Prince for the Saint.) He died in 
1782. " - 

In 1769, England was visited by him, lie returned in 
1771 and was twenty years from his first coming to the 
time of his death. "Dear old Mr. Pearce," as often styled 
by Mrs. Richard Waring, of Tranquil Hill. She had been 
taken as a lovelv bride to the neioliborliood of Dorchester, 
the year of his return to his congregation there, She al- 
ways attended on his preaching in his beautiful church, 
and united her tears with those of many others, when that 
loved edifice was iired by the English and partially 
defaced. 

He performed the service over the remains of her lius- 
band, who went down to an early grave in 1781, and was in- 
terred at Pine Hill, his family burial place. 

Of Mr. Waring we arc told that he had adorned religioji: 
and that oji his lips the words of truth and sincerity ever 
hovered. To the partner of his joys and griefs he vrilled 
his entire estate. 

We will resume, uur account of Ihc Rev. Dr. Smith, wlio 
remained in Maryland until the establishment of peace, 
taking charge of St. Paul's Parish, Q,ueen Anne's county, 



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0)1 the eastern shore. He retuTned in May, 1783, and was 
joyfully welcomed home again. St. Philip's Parish in par- 
ticular, gladly hailed 'the arrival of their honored and he- 
loved minister. The deranged state of the finances of his 
church at this period, as well as of his own estate, made it 
]iecessary for him to add to the multiplied labors of his 
pastoral function, the arduous and anxious responsibility of 
tuition. From Lis fidelity and diligence as the preceptor 
^)f youth, lie was resorted to l)y parents of all ranks and 
conditions in life, and it was many years before he could 
entirely relinquish tlu^ occupation, from which the mem- 
bers of the church, especially, derived such favorable 
•"opportunities of education for their sons. In 1790, the 
School having become '' The Charleston College," was kept 
in one of the old brick barracks that had been fitted up for 
its accommodation ; v.'ith rpiite a domain to the north and 
west i'or a campus, or play ground, where tlie boys often 
amused themselves with digiug musket balls out of the old 
ramparts. 

On the 22d of February, 1734, the General Assembly 
granted £100 towards building the parsonage house for Sr. 
Philip's Parish, and that a grant of £G00, (nirrency, was 
made by the Assembly, on the 25th of January, 1739. to- 
wards defraying the expense of building the parsonage, etc., 
for St. Philip's Parish, which we presume was immediately 
v'ccupied by Commissary Alexander Garden, wdio on his 
lonth visitation, April 10th, 17-10, had nine Clergymen 
present, the sermon was jjreacbedby the Rev. William Orr. 
then assistant minister at St. Philip's. That year was re- 
markable for the trial of the Pev. George Whitefield, in 
the ecclesiastical Court ; and remarkable for a destructive 
lire on the 18th of November. A solemn Fast Vv\asheldon 
ihe 28th of the month. The Rev. Mr. Garden resigned on 
the 29th of October. 1 753. ITc preached his farewell ser- 



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mon on the 31st of March, 1754. In liis Dee<l of resigna- 
tion, lie gives wp to the church wardens and vestry "ample 
and clear disposition of the said Rectory, Avith all demand 
or title, which he might claim, by any manner of means, 
for touching, or in any wise concerning the said Rectory of 
the Parish church of St. Philips." " And I promise, that 
at no time hereafter shall I ever make any claim to the 
said Ptcctory, or to any salary, fees or perc|uisitcs/' Pie 
had lived thirty-four years as Rector, and twenty-three as 
Commissary of the Province. The Vestry presented him 
with a handsome piece of plate, on which was engraved 
the west front of St. Philip's church, and an inscription. 
The Rev. Richard Clarke succeeded him as Rector in 175G. 
and left in 1759, when as you have been told, the Rev. Dr. 
Robert Smith, having served two years as a Deacon, was 
elected Rector, and he continued such through the ensuing 
thirty-six years, until 1795, Avhen he was chosen as the first 
Bishop of South Carolina, which office he administered 
respectably until his death, on the 28th of October, 1801, 
when the solemn tolling of St. Michael's bell caused the 
hearts of many listeners to die within their breast. It was 
not until 1798, that he resigned his place as Principal of 
the College, three 'years after being consecrated a bishop. 
Advanced as was his age, he had not attained the termina- 
tion of the career of usefulness of which he was capable. 
He was forty-four years in Chariest own. On the 14th of 
July, 1759 we see him as the newly ordained Rector send- 
ing forth in the '' Carolina Charles Town South Gazette No. 
1000, adorned Avith the Lion and the Fnicoi-n fighting fo;- 
the crown," the following notice : 

" Strayed off Charles Town green, a red cow with a black 
rump, who shall deliver at the Parsonage of St. Philips shall 
have forty shillings. Robert Smith." 

And again in the tiny paper of the sam^' dnte wo read : 



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" Ten pounds reward will be given to find out who knock- 
ed off the balls and injured the fence at the Parsonage, two 
nights, I have reason to suspect the soldiers, having re- 
ceived much abuse from that quarter, 'tis hoped that the 
Serjeants will endeavour to linci out the offenders." 

R. Smith." 

Bishop Smith was born six months after President George 
Washington, on the 25th of August, 1732, and has been 
dead fifty-nine years this month, October the 28th, 1860. 
Convinced that here he had "no continuing city," that 
change was his portion in this the house of his pilgrim- 
age, and that he " would not live always, away from his 
God." He was early in life weaned from this uncertain 
world, and brought to live under the powers of the world 
to come, therefore he could hear with calm equanimity 
whatever it was seen meet to lay upon him. The rapid 
approach of cheerless gloomy winter is urging us to the 
greater diligence in the prosecution of this our gigantic 
undertaking. The honored Bishop died at the age of sixty- 
nine years and a few months, and throughout that prolong- 
ed existence we know of only one faux pas committed, 
which w^as that of engaging the Rev. Robert Purcell, A. M., 
as an assistant minister for St. Philip's. On the 25th of 
April, 17G8, the Rev. Mr. Crahlan resigned his office in 
the church. He was deranged, and had made an attempt 
on his life by throwing himself out of a window at the 
old Parsonage in St. Philip's street (now gone). On his 
passage to England ho jumped overboard and was lost. 
Dr. Smith then engaged Mr. Purcell, Avho had beenOurate 
to the Rector of Shipton-Mallet for eight years, and was 
l^iighly recommended for talent and piety. He arrived in 
17G9, and v.'as elected assistant, the Vestry compliment- 
ing him with £200 curre. In 1775 he resigned and went 
to England, feigning to mnke some arrangement for the 



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Church of Shipton-Mallet, where he had left a substitute. 
It was believed that he never intended to return, having 
been greatly disliked, but the war breaking out just then 
afforded him an excuse for remaining in England, receiving 
a pension of £100 per annum as a Loyalist. Liberty of 
the Press must have existed here to its full extent at that 
time, and surely enough was published to drive him from 
the Province, for in the "News Paper" bearing date Sep^ 
tember G-, 1774, his vile character is painted out in glow- 
ing colors, a disgrace to the Church and to humanity. Nor 
do we think that the sensible folk of our town would have 
been willing ever again to wear the yoke of this foreign 
tyrant. His barbarous manner of treating the relatives of 
of the poor, whom he was required to bury, testing their 
patience by making them wait hours in the hot sun, or 
pouring rain, at the graves, and abusing them shamefully 
when they met, or going too early himself, then retiring 
to some eating-house and declaring " they may do without 
his services," literally planting his iron heel upon the de- 
fenceless wherever he could, whilst he bowed and cringed 
to the wealthy. Dr. Smith possessed no power over him ; 
jiot being yet a bishop, he could not " haul this refractory 
son of the Church over the coals," neither had we a Com- 
missary Johnson or Garden to do it. No, not so mucli as a 
Sir Nathaniel Johnson, with his Board of Lay-commission- 
ers, remained — those sons of England " wlio took too mucli 
upon them." As a literary curiosity, my dear young 
IVicnds, I give the communication to the paper verbatim. 
" To the Printer, Sir : You will agree with me, tliat Vice 
in general is infinitely odious, and that it is viewed with 
particular Dislike in the conduct of a Clergyman, whose 
immoral Life must of necessity be considered as a common 
injury to the cause of Keligion. The following Letter is 
written with a design to prevent this Evil, and as every 



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Bejievolciih Heart must approve the design, I doubt not 
your giving it a place in your Gazette, which will certainly 
oblige all your readers, who wish well to the cause of 
Ohristianity, and desire to see its Ministers adorn their 
profession by an exemplary, pious and holy life." 

LETTER TO THE REV. MR. ROBERT PURCELL. 

Scptcmhcv 6(h, 1774. 
Slr : It is a just Observation that the best Mark of a 
Christian Spirit is Charity ; but whatever Charity we are 
to have for Men's Persons, it is most undoubtedly true that 
we are to have none for their Vices. And the greatest Act 
of Charity one can do to persons in general is to advise and 
exhort them seriously to consider their Ways, in Order to 
reform and amend their Lives. This Duty indeed is neces- 
sary for all, but it is more particularly so for vicious and 
immoral Clergymen, whose indecent Conduct gives Offence 
to all good People, and even those who are not good. Be- 
hold in it a most scandalous Prostitution of the sacred Char- 
acter. How wdll such answer to God at the Great Day 
who, instead of ])eing examples to their Flocks of Virtue, 
Sobriety and Holiness, are the foremost to lead them on in 
the Ways of Sin and eternal Ruin ? Can it be thought that 
transcribing printed Sermons, getting up in the Pulpit upon 
a Lord's Day and reading over those Sermons only as a 
Matter of Form, and then all the Rest of the Week living in 
such a loose Manner as to contradict Everything there de- 
livered, is performing the whole Duty of a Clergyman ? 
Lay your Hand on your Heart and ask your c^n onscienceC 
what Figure you will make when you stand before the Judg- 
ment Seat of Christ. You have taken a great Charge upon 
you, and a most strict and solemn Account you must give. 
And ought you not to exert your utmost Endeavors to save 



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your own Soul, and the Souls of others particularly com- 
mitted to your Charge ? Be not startled, Sir, at this Ad- 
dress, which proceeds from a Christian Spirit, and if you 
read with the same Spirit it w-ill do you good. But if this 
should happen to raise your Indignation I can assure you 
that shall raise no other Passion in me than Pity. If you 
think yourself above Censure you are greatly mistaken, for 
the least Spot in a Clergyman's Character wili-be magnified 
into a Crime. If so, what shall w'e think of Vice, particu- 
larly of the odious and detestable Vices of Drunkenness, 
Debauchery and Irreverence. Now that you are one of 
those bad Clergymen is demonstrable ; and I am confident 
there is no Set of Men in the World so apprehensive of Dis- 
respect, or can so little bear the Examination into their Con- 
duct as the greatest Part of the Ecclesiastics. It is not so 
with the Lawyer, Physician, soldier, merchant and the pro- 
fessors of almost every Science, for they are the first to ex- 
pose the knaves and fools among them ; but I cannot tell by 
w^hat Fatality it happens that if the Layman do but touch the 
Vices of the meanest of their Order so many of them cry 
out and make an Uproar ; their Order is profaned, derided 
and exposed ; Religion itself in Danger, and Socinian, Deist 
or Atheist is' the best Word often given to their most inti- 
mate Friends. Or some of them, more moderate, will tell 
you " not to speak against the Clergy, as you are more or 
less connected with them in your Situation of Life." To 
which I answer : "If Clergymen would avoid contem];)t let 
them avoid the Causes of it. Let them not do as you do, 
seek after debauched Company, and prefer the Bottle and 
Pipe to the cohsciencious Discharge of your Duty, and hoard 
up Riches at the Expense and Affability of your Acquain- 
tances, nor let them accept of a Living in this Part of the 
World, and at the same time impose on the People of Eng- 
land by holding a Stipend, or two or three, at £60 Sterling 



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pev vAiii and leave a poor Brother Professor (who has a 
wife and a number of smair children) laboring in the duty 
for one Half of the Money. Let them not, as you do, be- 
have so haughty and with so much insolence to those who 
pay 7/oi(, (so very genteel a Living as you receive here ; good 
God ! what ingratitude for the Bread you eat), and before 
you came here, lived in the greatest Amity and brotherly 
Love with their Clergymen. Let them not, as you do, make 
so invidious Distinction, and behave so indecent when per- 
forming the solemn funeral Services, between the Eich and 
Poor, the Care of whose Souls ought to be in the discharge 
of your Duty to both alike. Let them not, as you do, 
neglect to visit those Under Affliction with that modest and 
humble Deportment which is so necessary, a Qualification to 
Persons of your order, nor let them despise the Work of 
God, because all Men have not Gifts alike. Let them not, 
as yoic do, refuse to attend some of the Houses of Mourning 
where Poverty dwells, notwithstanding it may be ever so 
much accompanied with Humility and every other Virtue. 
Nor let them appoint the Time for a Corpse to be brought to 
the Burying Ground, and because it is not there exactly at 
the Moment goes away unconcerned, sauntering about, and 
leaves the Kelations waiting, perhaps in the hot sun or a 
shower of rain, an Hour or an Hour and a Half, and at last 
be obliged to bury the Corpse without a Minister, or tho 
least oflices being performed over it. Let them not, as 
you do, positively deny going t"o pa.rticular Houses, and by 
that Means frecjuently oblige People to bury the Deceased 
at another Place of Worship far distant from where the 
Family have been accustomed to bury for perhaps forty or 
fifty years back. Let them not, as you do, at some of the 
melandioly Scenes of Distress, when the silent Corpse excites 
the Relation^' tenderest Tears, torment the afflicted with- 
vour ill-natured Messages, viz.: 'Whv^ or if vou do not 



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move the Corpse immediately I will go Home and you may 
bury the Body without a Minister.' Let them not, as you 
do, at Funerals, brow-beat and abuse the^ People within 
those sacred Walls, especially if none of the great Dons are 
present, and tis a poor Person that is to be buried, by say- 
ing, ' Why did you not come before ? The Corpse shall not 
be carried into the Church, so go along to the grave with 
it.' Let them not, as you do, refuse to listen to ever so 
' good a Reason or make some Allowance for unforseen Acci- 
dents that happened in those Cases, though you are in- 
formed that some of the Relations or pall-Bearers, &c., did 
not come sooner. Let them not, as you do, give so little 
attention to the solemn Duty of Prayer by so abruptly 
breaking off and saying to some By-stander : • You, Sir, 
pull off your Hat,' or 'You Black Rascal, hold your tongue,' 
and then return, with a sullen countenance, to call upon the 
Lord to have Mercy upon us. Let them not, as you do, 
refuse to comply with the usual decent Custom of attend- 
ing Funerals from the House of the Deceased to the Burying 
Ground, which has been the practice of other Clergymen 
to oblige, ever since the Province has been settled, but even 
refuse what is your real Duty, that of attending them from 
the Gates to the Grave, which you have been civilly asked 
to do, and have positively denied, by saying to the Parents 
of the Deceased: 'Give me none of your impertinence; if 
you do not have the Child carried to the Grave without my 
going before it, the Child shall not be buried at all.' Let 
them not, as you in your churlish Manner, say : ' 1 will Jiot 
be out burying a Corpse after Sunset to injure my health 
and Constitution.' Yet you take so much pains to seek for 
jovial Company in Vvdiich you can sit up till past Midnight, 
and then in wandering to your Lodging at unreasonable 
Hours, disturbing the Inhabitants by calling at a poor Man's 
House, when he was guarding the Inhabitants in tlieir silent 



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repose, and treating liis wife ^Yith indecency, and after- 
wards going to the Watch House and Cjuarreling with the 
Officer of the Guard, who, being a consciencious Man, and 
as his Euty rer|iiired him, the next morning reported yoitr 
Behavior, among other Transactions, to the Governor, who 
did, upon your false Eepresentation of the Matter, oblige 
the Officer to deliver up his Commission, because he would 
not alter the Truth of what he had reported and beg your 
Pardon. 

These are Facts, Sir, you cannot deny, of which I leave 
the "World to judge if they are becoming the Dignity of a 
Clergyman ? Upon the whole, then, let Clergymen win Re- 
spect and wear it, and let them not earn Infamy and de- 
mand Veneration ; let not those of them who live in all 
Manner of Vileness, add AVant of Shame to their Want of 
Grace, and bewail that they are contemned while they are 
deserving of it. Who can own and reverance a Clergyman 
who is rioting every Saturday, and talk of his Dignity and 
Embassadorship on Sunday, to be our Guide to Heaven, who 
is himself going a contrary Road, and rioting in those Vices 
which his whole Duty is to restrain. The Honor of the 
good Clergy is promoted by exposing the bad, for a bad 
Priest is the Disgrace and Bane of his own Order, and they 
who stand forth and adopt his Infamy, polute themselves, 
and here I list myself under the Banners of good Clci-gy, 
and with The utmost Sincerity desire to pay all Affection, 
Esteem and Reverence to those Clergy v/ho answer the End 
of their Institution, and whose Lives and Manners Grace 
and adorn their Professions and Doctrine. I wish this may 
be taken as it is intended, but be the Event what it may, I 
have this comfortable Satisfaction in my own Breast, that I 
have hereby endeavored to promote your Eternal Welfare ; 
whose spiritual Wretchedness and Misery I heartily deplore. 
I have onlv to add fervent Pravers to the Throne of Grace. 



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that a Divine Blessing may attend this, and set it Home to 
your innermost Conscience, and bring you to a speedy and 
sincere Eepentance." " Philo Clericus." 

How unlike was this naughty man to the Rev. Dr. Smith, 
of happy memory, he who was ever teaching the rising 
generation, or else preaching to every sex and age, reserv- 
ing no portion of his time for the indulgence of ease, and 
very little for the enjoyment of domestic pleasure, even in 
his own family, but devoting all his thoughts and attention 
to the happiness and prosperity of an admiring and grate- 
ful community. The paper of 1774 containing the above 
masterly rebuke, was sent by Mr. Eveleigh, an English 
merchant, to his relatives at home, and returned a half 
century after to a member of the Same family in Charles- 
ton, who continues to be the proud possessor of it. With 
it came one of 1752, giving an account of the terrible 
hurricane of the 15th of September — after which the bodies 
of Mrs. Bedon, one of her children and a Dutch boy who 
lived with them, were taken up in the pasture of the Par- 
sonage, and in the hour of dire distress, buried on the spot. 
Her husband floated along Broad street, and was caught 
through a south window into a house now owned and occu- 
pied by the Hon. Alfred Huger, our valued Postmaster, of 
many a long year of faithful service. A negro woman of 
Mr. Bedon's was founll clinging to the branches of a tree 
on Coming's point (or Harleston's Green, as it had then 
come to be called,) and was rescued from an untimely end. 
The Bedon house in Church street, near the Baptist church, 
(now the Mariner's) had been washed down and several 
members of the family killed. The Parsonage of that day 
was the second on the site in St. Philip's street, on which 
the Normal School now stands ; its pasture extended to 
Beaufain on the south, and to or beyond Coming on the 
west ; which led some persons to think that the bodies dis- 



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covered in 1852, at the junction of Coming and Beaufain 
streets, v^^ere those of the drowned in 1752, or others who 
had died at the Parsonage suhsequently to that time. Many 
of you will remember that finding of human remains hy 
workmen engaged in making a large excavation for the 
purpose of constructing a fire well ; pieces of wood in a 
decayed state were thrown up, and on a further examina- 
tion three or four cofiins were discovered, each containing 
a human skeleton. The bones were apparently those of 
adults, and were partially decomposed. Nobody knows 
how they got there, but it was an ascertained fact that just 
above the spot where they were found a brick drain had 
been constructed within the last ten or fifteen years — the 
masons never dreaming of the dead, a few^ feet below their 
work. The square bounded by Coming and Pitt, Beaufain 
and Wentworth streets was a common until about 1812-13, 
when a house was erected on the N. W. corner by a Ger- 
man, named Michael Bloomstoch. A creek run through 
the square from opposite Wilson street, to the corner of 
Wentworth and Coming streets — a drain in Beaufain street 
emptied into the creek. By looking back upon the earliest 
grave-yard on this Oyster Point, which was laid out as a 
town in 1672, v/e find that the burial place for all its in- 
habitants extended \\^est, and north from the present Arch- 
dale street to the south boundry of "old Aunt Comings'" 
land ; she who, in 1698, generously made the donation of 
seventeen acres of land to the English Church, (St. Philip's, 
on the site of St. Michael's, then the only one.) They are 
situated upon Beaufain, Wentworth, Coming and St. Philip's 
streets, constituting the present Glebe of St. Philip's and 
St. Michael churches. For the Rev. Mr. Samuel Marshal], 
the then minister, she had in that year built the Parsonage 
on a part of the land — on its extreme eastern boundry, St. 
Philip's road. The deed confirming the gift of the land 



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was signed on the ist of iJecember, Anno JJomlni 1G08, in 
the presence of F, Randolph, George Dearsley, George Lo- 
gan, Jonathan Amory and John Penning. That first "Field 
of Rest" did not extend fnrther sonth than Queen street, 
which w^as called in a deed of January 20th, 1697, " a 
little street that runs from the Cooper to the Ashley river," 
and north to wdiat was afterward named Beaufain street, 
through respect to Hector Berenger De Beufain, Esq., who 
was born in France, in 1697, and removed iTom London in 
1733; he died amongst us in 1766, deservedly regretted. 
"The Field of Rest" would extend as far west as required 
from time to time. Having located the ground, we will 
now proceed to fill it. The Rev. Mr. Marshall died the 
year after taking possession of the first Parsonage, (in 1699) 
of the yellow fever, fully the fourth of a century after in- 
terments had been made east of the Ashley. A letter from 
Mr. Isaac Norris, dated November 18th, 1699, old style, 
states that 150 persons had died in Charles- Town in a few 
da7/s, the survivors had fled into the country, and the town 
was thinned to a^very few people. In September and Octo- 
ber 160 died and were buried. The population of the town 
consisted, at that early period, of many more adults than 
children, and of a larger number of men than women. 
All of these facts are substantiated by a reference to 
history. 

The second burial place established was the south yard 
of St. Philip's, built in 1680, and across Broad street, on 
the lot now the City Square, all of which you have been 
informed long ago in *' Carolina in the Olden Time." By 
1697 that ground was so filled w^ith Episcopalian bones 
that it became necessary to forbid that any more inter- 
ments should be made there. The east part of the church 
yard was bought in 1697 for £10 sterling, on the relin- 
quishing the north yard. There we had hoped to find a 



SHADOWS OF THE l^AST. 23 

stone commemorative of the virtues and services of the 
Rev. Mr. Marshall, who ended his career of usefulness in 
1699 ; but have been disappointed in our search thus far. 
In 1690 the "White Meeting" had laid out a yard. 
Other dissenting churches followed in rapid succession to 
do the same. Yet still there was much use for the com- 
mon ground, which, in all probability, was divided into 
two parts for the reception of master and slave. The 
Amory property (lost to the family of Dr. Joseph Johnson 
and others) which extended from the channel of Cooper 
River westwardly to King street, from the south side of 
Hasel to the north side of Wentworth. " The lot No. 48, 
adjoining Comings' land," also extended beyond the pres- 
ent King street to St. Philip's, to where old Aunt Comings' 
land commenced, and where she erected the first parson- 
age in 1698, and extended back to the street which now 
bears her honored name, and south to Beaufain. Once 
again reverting to the Rev. Robert Purcell, we ask is it 
not a pleasing reflection that he left no relatives here ? 
Those of his name residing in St. George's Parish are of an 
entirely distinct family. Their forefather, the Rev. Henry 
Purcell, D. D., caane in 1770, and officiated at Dorchester 
during the absence of the Rector, the Rev. Offspring 
Pearce, from '70 to '71. Some time previous to the Revo- 
lution he was elected Rector of Christ Church Parish, and 
during the war he occasionally officiated at St. Michael's. 
On the 7th of May, 1776, he was appointed Chaplain to 
the Second vSouth Carolina Regiment, commanded by Col. 
Moultrie, and on the 17th of February, 1778, he was 
appointed Deputy Judge Advocate General of South 
Carolina and Georgia. After the evacuation of Charles 
Town he v/as elected Rector of St. Michael's, and was 
honored with the degree of D. D. by the College of New 
Jersov. He died on tlie 24th of March, 1802. leavino; a 



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widow and six children to reap the benefits of the Clergy' 
Society. Dr. Purcell was esteemed as a good scholar and 
a sound divine. As a school companion we remember a 
grand-daughter of his in 1804, Miss Sarah Smith, a c|uiet, 
modest girl, who won and kept many hearts. She has 
often crossed our mind as seeming to possess in an emi- 
nent degree that natural refinement of mind and manners 
which education and a knowdedge of the world so often 
fail to give, while it seems intuitive in others. And now 
that the day is far spent let me ask you, my fair readers, 
whether you do not perceive ominous signs all around us 
as if the ivorld's last and closing " night watch " had set 
in ? The billows are heaving high. Art thou ready ? If 
this night were indeed the very last, and the thunders of 
judgment were to break upon thee ere daybreak — wouldst 
thou be able, in the assurance of an eternal dawn, to say — 

" I will both lay me down in peace and sleep ; 
For thou, Lord, ouly makcst me dwell in safety." 

Now, in tlie hour of need, pray you for 

The Ancient Lady. 



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XjBTT:mR. "VII. 



Parsonage, Odoher 30, 1860. 

" Bear lightly on their foreheads, Time ! 
Strew roses on their way, 
The young in heart, however old, 
That prize the present day ; 
And wiser than the pompous proud, 
Are wise enough to play. 

" 'Tig something when the noon has passed 
To brave the touch of Time, 
And say Good friend, thou harm'st me not, 
My soul is in its prime ; 
Thou cans't not chill my warmth of heart, 
I carol while I climb." 

THE THREE PARSONAGES OF ST. PHTTJP'S 
CHURCH. 

My Bear YouNa Friends : 

You know that the fii-Rt Gliurch that bore the distinc- 
tive name of "St. Philip" was built in 1682, on the site 
originally designed for it in the model of the town sent 
out in 1671, and that it stood where the only St. Michael 
now stands, at the southeast corner of Broad and Meeting 
streets. Buil,t of black cypress upon a brick foundation, 
"large and stately/' surrounded by a neat white palisade. 



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When Joseph Blake was Governor in 1696, although a 
dissenter, it is recorded that his lady, who was a Baptist, 
contributed liberally towards the adornment of the edifice. 
Its first Minister wa.s the Rev. Atkin Williamson. He 
died at an advanced age in 1711, having, from 1696, out 
of the public treasury, received the sum of £30 a year for 
his support. The Rev. Samuel Marshall, an amiable, 
learned and pious man, succeeded him in 1696. His con- 
duct and talents had given such satisfaction, and his income 
from the church being precarious, the General Assembly, 
on the 8th of October, 1698, passed "An Act to settle a 
maintenance on a Minister of the Church of England in 
Charles Town." Then it was that Mrs. AflVa Coming, 
a lady of eminent piety and liberality, the widow of the 
late Captain John Coming, generously made a donation of 
lands to the church on the 10th day of December, 1698. 
Sevetecn acres, situated uj^on Wentworth, Coming, Beau- 
fain, St. Philip's, Glebe and George streets, constituting 
the present Glebe of St. Philip's and St. Michael's Churches. 
It was enacted that the Rev. Mr. Marshall should " havo 
and enjoy all the lands, houses, negroes, cattle and moneys 
appointed for the use, benefit and behalf of the Minister 
of Charles Town," with a salary of £150 per annum to 
him and his successors forever ; and directed that a negro 
man and woman, four cows and calves be purchased foi- 
his use, and paid for out of the public treasury. (The Act 
was repealed on the 30th of November, 1706, and the 
Church Act passed on the same day.) And " to be built 
for his use a good brick house on a plantation." This par- 
sonage was at some distance beyond the fortifications of 
the town, as shown on the map of Edward Crisp, in 1704. 
Mr. Marshall, as told, died in the autumn of 1699, of the 
yellow fever. AVithin the short space of eleven years, in 
1709. '' this parsonage being much out of repair, the 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 27 

Assembly ordered on the 5th of November " that the Pub- 
lic Receiver pay out of the treasury unto the Wardens of 
the Church the sum of £60 towards its reparation, and 
that the present Minister (Commissary Gideon Johnson) 
living in the same' for the future keep it in repair. The 
Rev. Richard Marsden had occuj)ied it from 1705 to 1707, 
when Johnson arrived. He was then elected Rector of 
Christ Church Parisli, but having repaired the parsonage 
to the amount of £20 was reimbursed by the x\ssembly on 
the 10th of February, 1708. In 1723 the white popula- 
tion in the 2:)rovince was about 14,000, the colored 18,000. 
"In 1731 the houses in the town were computed to bo 
between five and six hundred;" a few lordly mansions, 
but the greater part of the buildings were said to be 
" clumsy, miserable huts, constructed of wood, a frame 
covered with clap-boards without, and plastering it with 
lime within, of which they had a plenty, made from oyster 
shells ; even the best of their houses built of timber were 
neither well constructed nor comfortable. Robert Johnson 
returning in 1730 as Royal Governor of the province it 
improved in building and in many other respects. A 
taste was introduced for brick buildings, and more neat 
and pleasant habitations." 

This brings us to the 22d of February, 1733, when the 
General Assembly granted £100 towards building the 
second Parsonage for the second St. Philip's Church. 
" Many ingenious artificers and tradesmen had found en- 
couragement in Charles Town." And then it was that 
they erected that chef cVmuvre which has lately disap- 
peared from St. Phili|)'s street. It was finished for the re- 
ception of the Rev. Mr. Garden. They must have been a 
long time in setting about, or slow in accomplishing the 
mighty hal>itation,for it was not until the 25th of January, 
1788, that a grant of £600 currency was made by the As- 



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sembly towards defraying the expense ot iiiiialiing the 
Parsonage, Avhich, after an occupancy of sixteen years by 
Commissary Alexander Garden and family, v»'as formally 
resigned in 1754. The Rev. Pvichard Clark stepped into 
the Castle as Rector in 1756, and his successor, the Rev. 
Robert Smith, followed in 1759 ; and that was the Par- 
sonage where " tlie balls were knocked off," ^'■^^ from 
whence ''the red cow had strayed." 

Now come we to The Parsonage in which we write : bui 
lirst let us recapitulate. The old wooden Church of St. 
Philip was taken down in 1727, eight years after the arri- 
val of Garden. An Act of Assembly had been passed in 
1710 for building the second St. Philij^'s, and another in 
1720 for completing it and repairing the damage it had 
sustained from storms. It was probably preached in by 
•1727, when the old one of forty-five years was pulled 
down, yet not completed until 1733. We have no Paro- 
chial Register before 1720, nor journals of the Vestry be- 
fore 1732, the year of the future Bishop's birth. The 
wardens were Capt. Robert Austin and William McKensie. 
Vestrymen — His Excellency Robert Johnson, Col. Samuel 
Prioleau, Capt. Greene, William Yeamans, Gabriel Mani- 
gault, Mr. Motte and Thomas Fairchild. In the latter 
year the Commissary, who had arrived in 1719, the year 
of our first revolution, held his second visitation of the 
clergy on the 19th of April. He was Rector thirty-four 
years and Commissary twenty-three out of that time. He 
resigned on the 29th of October, 1753, as you have been 
told; also, that January, 1755, placed Mr. Clarke as the 
Rector, whose resignation in 1759 installed Mr. Smith in 
his stead, who in 1768 went to England for the restoration 
of his health. He returned early in 1770, and on the 7th 
of April an Act was passed providing for the building of 
a new Parsonage house for St. Philip's, and authorizing 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 29 

the leasing part of the Glebe. The proprietors of the land 
called Comings' Point had preferred a petition to the As- 
sembly on this subject. 

Charles Town was daily becoming more populous, and 
an additional number of streets and building lots were re- 
c[uired in the northwest part of the town. " By laying 
out the streets a great part of the large and ancient Glebe 
of St. Philip's may be divided and put into lots, and leased 
to great advantage for the benefit of the Rector and for 
other purposes, and will yet leave a large and commodious 
piece of land for the habitation of the Rector, who, with 
the Vestry and Wardens, are desirous the same may be 
done." *' But as by laying out the said streets the present 
Parsonage will be much confined and made too public and 
inconvenient, we will build a large handsome Parsonage 
on another part of the Glebe land, and the Vestry and 
Wardens are hereby fully authorized, directed and required 
to lay out a piece or parcel of the said Glebe land for 
building and erecting the new Parsonage (now ninety 
years of age) and proper out-houses, and for the laying 
out of a garden, orchard and pasturage, for the habitation, 
use and occupation of the said Rector or Minister of the 
said Parish of St. Philip's for the time being. After that 
they shall divide and lay out all that remains of the Glebe 
(excepting a part that is specified to be sold) into so many 
lots as they think proper, to be let out on written leases 
with reserved rents thereon, for the use of the Rector, or 
for the uses, for a term not exceeding thirty-one years." 
From this comfortable home the Rev. Mr. Smith was taken 
to be banished. He was placed on board ship and landed 
at Philadelphia, where he did not long remain, for adopt- 
ing the sentiment of Addison, "While I yet live let me 
not live in-vain." And feeling the obligation to do good 
in all its force, and no British mandate able to forbid it, he 



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immediately took the temporary charge of St. Paul's 
Parish, Queen Anne's county, on the Eastern Shore of 
Maryland, where he was long remembered with respect 
and affection. Doubtless during the possession of Charles 
Town some lordly British officer had occupied the Parson- 
age, and thankful may we be that it escaped destruction, 
for in the hearts of our enemy heaven-born mercy was ex- 
tinguished, since even the temples of the Most High were 
consumed by flames in some parts of the State, kindled by 
their sacrilegious hands. Greatly did they tarnish the 
glory of the British arms, disgrace the profession of British 
soldiers, fixing indelible stigmas of rapine, cruelty, perfidy 
and profaneness on the British name. 

And now, having brought our terrible tirade against 
them to a conclusion, we will turn our thoughts to a more 
agreeable topic, and tell you of a nice old house recessed 
next door west of the beautiful Grace Church, in Went- 
worth street. It is the property of a landlady whose en- 
ergy, honorable promises, politeness and generosity ever 
secure a tenant. Indeed she is wholly unlike most of those 
to be met with as landlords or landladies, from the gene- 
rality of whom we fervently pray, conserva Mie^ Domme. 
This politic lady (since, surely, next to honesty, politeness 
is the best policy on earth) quite wins the heart and cap- 
tivates the ear by the assurance that in her researches after 
the age of the house, to establish it as one of the land- 
marks of the city, she has discovered that it was occupied 
by the Rev. Mr. Smith on his return in 1783 (finding the 
Parsonage hired out for a year), and there commenced the 
germ of that school which was transferred to the Parsonage 
basement, a part of which was used as a chapel. 

In that former school-room we now take our meals, and 
often do I pause a little time to meditate on the past, and 
think what a variety of scenes may have passed within 



SHADOWS OF THE TABT, 31 

hese walls, now so beautifully papered, and lighted at 
ii^iit with resplendent gas. Where, we ask, are the 
9achers, those well qualified classical men, who, under Dr. 
)mith's superintendence, conducted this academy, until it 
)ecame of sufScient importance to 1 3 removed to a larger 
)uilding, and incorporated as a college." " Dear old school- 
oom ! . Couldst thou speak, we should be told that eminent 
nen have been nurtured in thee : ingenious mechanics, on 
vhom the comfort of the community depend ; athletic 
armers, laying the forest low, and forcing earth to yield 
iier increase ; physicians, blessed by the sick sufferer ; elo- 
quent lawyers, wise statesmen, holy priests, who faithfully 
interpret the word of the Almighty to the glad listener," 
That the Rev. Dr. Smith should have been made a member 
of the Cincinnati Society was a testimonial of the army's 
high appreciation of his soldierly qualities and private 
virtues. Amongst our inmates we have one who is con- 
temporary with the Charlestown Gazette of 1774, and has 
attained the age of eighty-six. Long passed the Scriptural 
limit of human life, it is fast approaching extinction, yet it 
seems that the activity of her mind will remain to the last. 
This paper, from which we have copiously drawn, tells us 
that in the year of her birth " Philip Henry, at his office 
in Meeting street, ojDposite to James Simpson, Esq., offers 
to bring up books with the utmost despatch. He offers 
for sale, by private contract, 1200 acres of land, on the 
head branches of Beaver Dam Creek, a branch of Thickett 
Creek, the water of Broad River." " Also, 450 acres of 
land, near the boundary line of Orangeburg Township, on 
a branch of Edisto River, known by the name of Lime 
Stone Swamp ; and 300 in Hillsborough Township, joining 
lands of Robert Beache, Daniel and Jean Davids, and 
James Pillfree. The purchaser may have a long credit, 
paying interest and giving security if required." " For 



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private sale, 250 acres in St. Mark's Parish, on the branches 
of Dutchman's Creek, waters of the Wateree River, bound- 
ing north and north-eastwardly on land belonging to 
George Pain ; 500 on Kelsey's Creek, on branches of Fair 
Forest. A lot, very valuable on account of its advan- 
tageous situation, on the corner of two wide streets, con- 
taining 144 feet front on Meeting street, and 200 on 
Hasell street. A plantation in St. Sames, Goose Creek, of 
415 acres, joining lands of Elizabeth, the wife of Henry 
Smith, Esq., and Mr. AVilliam Withers; on the premises is 
a good, newly-built dwelling house of six rooms, with a 
large piazza, and other necessary buildings. This planta- 
tion is well situated for a brick-kiln, being on a large 
creek, where schooners of any burthen may load with 
ease." "A pleasant, commodious, and well finished house 
in Orange street, opposite to the Hon. Thomas Knox 
Gordon, Esq., consisting of six airy rooms, a kitchen, fowl- 
house, good cellar, and every requisite building. The lot 
contains forty-two feet front, by one hundred feet deep. 
Also, 300 acres in St Thomas' Parish, bounding north- 
west on Samuel Wells' land, south-west on Elias Wigfall's 
land. On this tract is an excellent saw mill, just built. — 
P. H.'" " James Davis informs Thomas Sumter, J. P., of a 
bay mare taken up in Camden District." '' Horses were 
tolled before Roger Pinckney, Esq. — Thomas Turner, J. P.* 
" A bay horse, thirteen hands high, branded on the mount- 
ing shoulder A and a ffetcr de luce at the top, with a small 
star in his forehead, is in the care of Joseph Palmer." "A 
bay horse, in the care of Francis Vanvelsin." "A sorrel 
horse, in the care of John Palmer, Jr. The owners must 
apply and 2:)rove their property before John Palmer, Jus- 
tice of the Peace." *' Carolina and New England Factors, 
recommended by Atkins and Weston." " Stephen Prosser 
removed his office to the house wherein Thomas Phippoe, 



SHADOWS OF THE TAHT. o3 

Eeq., lived lately, next door to Mr. Lawrence's warehouse 
in Bedon's alley, wliere books and accounts will be brought 
up and clearly started." " Just arrived in the Pallas, 
Captain Turner ; the Portlajid, Captain Wilson ; the Britain. 
Captain IJrquhart, from London ; and the Live Oak, Cap- 
tain Lundberry, from Bristol, England." " A large assort- 
ment of dry goods, to be sold yery cheap, by Mansell and 
Corbett — silks, rich brocades, lutestrings, tobines and 
satins, entire new patterns, the first out of the looms ; 
painted and printed tambor-worked muslins, cheap hats, 
thread and cotton stockings, Marseilles counterpanes and 
petticoating, flowers and corded dimitys, fine plain India 
dimity, carpets, glass, and china Avare, perfumery, hair- 
powder, sheeting, white plains, superfine broad cloths and 
cassimeres, waistcoat shapes, guns, shot-lead and gun- 
powder, coarse linings, twelve yards in a piece, for thirty 
shillings, all kinds of nails and plantation tools, iron- 
mongery, cutlery, saddlery, pewter goods, iron and copper 
ware, grocery and linendrapery." Then it was, dear friends, 
that we reaped the benefit of direct trade with England — 
and why shall we not again ? The paper from which we 
will continue to copy was numbered 458. 
, "The Lion and the Unicorn guarding the Crown.' 
" The South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal con- 
taining the freshest advices, both foreign and domestic — 
Tuesday, September 6th, 1774 — printed by Crouch & 
Clray," in which George Cooke & Co. call for a settlement 
of all accounts due to the 1st of January last. They must 
be paid by the 1st of November next. " Christ Church 
Parish — two horses strayed from the pasture of Jonathan 
Scott." "St. Paul's Parish, July 29th, George Bell had 
tolled a strong brown bay, poor and galled ; and Samuel 
Bowman a mare, sides and breast much galled by the har- 
ness ; owner to prove property; Andrew Leith, J. P." 



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■• An address tu Uie inhabitants of South Carolina, by a 
Carolinian. My Dear Countrymen — Every new arrival 
from England brings intelligence of some new attack upon 
the rights of the Americans. Every new Act of Parlia- 
ment astonishes us with some prodigy more horrible than 
the former. I think it hajipy, my countrymen, that 
Providence has so ordered it, that by their own conduct 
they should have opened the eyes of all mankind. A 
milder administration might have blinded us forever.' 
Then it was that Lord Caermarthen had boasted, as an 
Jirgument against American freedom, that "'America was 
at least as much represented in Parliament as Manchester, 
which had made no complaint of a want so wiagumry.' 
But the time was fast coming, however, when freedom 
should be claimed in Manchester as boldly as it was in 
America, whose peaceful land was doomed to become the 
scene of fierce and murderous contention. And here 
again clouds are shadowing our political horizon, threaten- 
ing to burst in tempest of sorrow on our devoted State. 
God in His mercy grant that our wishes for a peaceful 
secession may be safely and speedily attained. If con- 
querors, may we *.'bear our honors meekly ;" if vanquished, 
with Christian fortitude. We, of the present crisis, look- 
ing back, recalling the great lessons taught by the deeds 
of our ancestors, feel that such was their conduct in those 
cases. The eventful 1774, on the 14th of January, gave 
birth to Robert J. Turnbull, " the intrepid and successful 
asserter of the rights of the State ; author of the address 
of the Convention to the people of South Carolina, and 
other able productions in support of Constitutional liberty." 
An obelisk in the west yard of St. Philip's Church is the 
monument to his memory. He was the son of Dr. Andrew 
Turnbull, who was born and educated in Scotland, re- 
moved early in life to Smyrna, in Asia Minor, where he 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 35 

became a distinguished practitioner of medicine. There 
he married a Grecian lady, Gracia Maria. After many 
years he enlisted colonists for a new enterprise, chiefly 
Greeks and Minorcans by birth, to settle in an English, 
colony. In the year 1768 they proceeded to St. Augustine 
with a company of fifteen hundred persons, three or five 
hundred were men. Their settlement was called New 
Smyrna, and they were under the patronage of Lord Hills- 
borough. He had, in 1766, received a grant of twenty 
thousand acres from the British Government in East 
Florida. With them came priests, both of the Eoman and 
Grecian Church. The colony prospered until the revolu- 
tion broke out, when a difference arose between Dr. Turn- 
bull and Patrick Tonyn, Esq., the Governor of Florida. 
He released the colonists from their indentures, they then 
forfeited their right to the land, the reward of nine years 
labor. The doctor was literally ruined by the revolution, 
although taking no part in it. He removed to Charle.-^ 
Town in May, 1781, with a large family and few servants. 
His talents and social qualities were such that he soon rose 
to the head of his profession, commanding the esteem and 
respect of all who knew him. 

And novr, soothing our spirits to rest, we will resume 
the ancient paper, which tells us that, " On Thursday la.st 
liis Majesty's packet-boat Le Despencer, Captain William 
Pond, sailed for Falmouth, with whom went passenger Mr, 
Thomas Shirley, merchant." And that '' on Saturday, be- 
tween 11 and 12 o'clock, the stables belonging to Mr.Wil- 
liman, the upper end of Queen street, was entirely con- 
sumed by fire, together with the upper part of his dwelling 
house." "Yesterday his Majesty's packet-boat Sandwich, 
commanded b}?" Captain Michael Kelly, sailed with the 
mails for Falmouth." "From Savannah, Ga., we learn 
that the inhabitants of St. John's Parish were to ehuse 



36 DAYS OF YOKE, OR 

depiitios to attend the approaching Congress, and that they 
liad also collected one hundred and seventy barrels of rice 
and £50 cash to be sent to the poor of Boston." " New- 
bern, North Carolina, elected deputies to represent that 
Province in the General Congress of the Colonies to be 
held at Philadelphia." " Gov. Martin, of North Carolina, 
had a2:)pointed the Hon. James Hasell, Esq., Chief Justice 
of that Province, in the absence of the Hon. Martin 
Howard, Esq., gone to Ehode Island." "Married, at Sa- 
vannah, Nathaniel Hall, Esq., to Miss Nancy Gibbons, 
daughter of Joseph Gibbons, Esq., deceased." " In Charles 
Town, Mr. Thomas Cochran to Miss Sarah Clifford." 
'■ Died, at his house near Cross Creelc, sincerely and uni- 
versally lamented, Richard Lj'-on, Esq. He was the first 
who established a trade at that place, and lived to see it 
the principal part of the country. During upwards of 
twenty years in that part of the Province he had the sin- 
gular good fortune to ])e esteemed and respected by all 
parties, however violent against each other. But it could 
not be otherwise, for v/ith the strictest sobriety he was re- 
markably hospitable and charitable to the distressed ; a 
fond husband, an indulgent father, and a gentle master, and, 
to crown all, a man of unspotted integrity." " In Charles 
Town, within a few days of each other, died Messrs. Ed- 
ward Dobell, Sr. and Jr., lather and son." " The price of 
rice is 50 shillings per 100 lbs." "Custom House entries 
inwardf< — On the 1st the Snow- Poggy, Alexander Ilardio, 
from Bristol, England ; ship Jupiter, Samuel Brown. On 
(ho 2d, two schooners from Georgia. On the 3d, four ditto, 
and two from New Providence. On the 5th, ship Fanny, 
AVilliam Main, from Africa. Gone out — Captnin Hardie. 
for Gosport, and the Snow Gambia for Bristol." 

Well, well, quite worn out with the day's exertion, I 
will Viid vou aood-nioht : vet fio ravii^hin^lv beautiful i;3 



SHABOWB OF THE PAST. 37 

this Autumn sky that wo must enjoy it a short time befoi'e 
retiring to rest upon our bed, and reflect on the goodness 
of that God who has made our prison so radiant, and of 
the saints who have all these beautiful stars beneath their 
feet. 

That pleasant dreams be yours is the prayer of 

The Axcient Lady. 



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XjETTEIE^/ "VIII. 



T. O V E T H K L I) . 

*' I love the old ; to lean beside 
The antique, easy chair, 
And pass my fingers softly o'er 
A wreath of silvered hair : 
To press my glowing lips upon 
The furrowed brow, and gaze 
Within tlie sunken ^ye, where dwells 
The * light of other days.' 

" To fold the pale and feeble hand 
That on my youthful head 
Has lain so tenderly, the while 
The evening prayer was said ; 
To nestle down close to the heaH, 
And marvel how it held 
Such tomes of legendary lore, 
T)ie chronicles of Eld. 

•*0h ! youth thou hast so much of joy, 
So much of life and love, 
^0 many hopes : Age has but one — 
Tlie hope of blips above. 
Then turn awhile from these away 

To cheer the old, and bless ^ 

The wasted heart-string with a stream ' \ 

Of gushing teudernei^>!. 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 39 

'•Thou treadest now a path of blooui, 
And thine exulting soul 
Springs proudly on, as though it mocked 
At Times' unfelt control. 
But they have marched a weary way 
Upon a thorny road, 
Then soothe the toil-worn spirits crc 
They pass away to God. 

" Yes, love the aged, bow before 
The venerable form, 
So soon to seek beyond the sky 
A shelter from the storm. 
Ay, love them ; let thy silent heart 
» With reverence untold, 

As pilgrims, v ry near to Meareit, 
Regard and love the Old." 

'' OBITUx\RY." 

'"Died, in "Williamsburg Districfc, South Carolina, on the 
16th of November, 1859, Miss Nancy Jlouzon, the daugh- 
ter of William Henry Mouzon, and his wife, Ann Taylor. 
She was born October the 8th, 1769, on Sunday at eleven 
o'clock, forenoon. The deceased, from her advanced age, 
and the thrilling experience of her early life, deserves 
more than a passing memorial. She was born where she 
died, in the year 1769, as told above, and was consequently 
about ninety years of age. She was often heard to say 
that she first saw the light the same year with Napoleon 
the I.; he was born on the 15th of August. Her natural 
vivacity and sprightliness of disposition ; her communica- 
tiveness and her teeming recollection of past events always 
rendered her an object of attraction to her friends. Her 
father, Captain Wm. H. Mouzon, was commandant of one 
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General Francis Marion. After the fall of Charles Town 
in 1780, on the 12th of May, and the memorable mission 
of Major John James to the British commandant at George 
Town, the patriots of Williamsburg mustered into service 
four companies under Captain William Henri/ Mouzon, 
James McCaulay, John James of the Lake, and William 
McCottry. Her chief command devolved on Major James, 
and a special message was sent to General Gates, just 
before the disastrous 1)attle of Camden, to grant them a 
general officer who had seen service. It is well known 
that General F. Marion was furnished in answer to the 
request. Before his arrival, however, and previously to 
the battle of Camden, the rising in Williamsburg was re- 
ported at the British headquarters in Charles Town, and 
the fiery Tarleton was dispatched to quell it. Crossing 
the Santee at LeNud's Ferry, he arrived at Kingstree on 
the 6th of August, 1780, and encamped for the night, all 
the way .expressing his desire for a pass at arms with the 
Whigs of Williamsburg. His zeal abatjed, however, when 
he heard of the approach of McCottry, and daring the 
night broke up his encampment and retreated precipitately 
up the Black river road towiirds Camden. Early next 
morning he reached the residence of Captain Mouzon. 
The subject of this memoir, then eleven years old, was on 
the roof of the smoke house, aiding in spreading the bacon 
to the sun, and was the first to descry the approach of the 
enemy and give the alarm. Captain Mouzon was then at 
home, and had just time to .escai^e to the swamp and to 
conceal himself. His daughter well remembered the per- 
sonal appearance of Colonel Tarleton, and also of Colonel 
, his Tory ally, and the dress of the British troop- 
ers — leather caps with plumes, red coats with white panta- 
loons and half boots. Tarleton approached Mrs. Mouzon 
courteously, xind told her, with apparent regret, that her 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 41 

husband had turned against the King, George the III., 
and must consequently be broken up." Orders were then 
given to set fire to the premises, and in a little time the 
family mansion, the out-houses, fourteen buildings in all, 
were wrapped in flames. This was the first act of atrocity 
of the kind in Williamsburg, and was followed by the 
devastating march of Wemyss a few weeks afterwards 
which laid waste a tract of country seventy miles in 
length, and in places fifteen miles in breadth. The follow- 
ing spring the march of Colonel Watson was interrupted 
at the bridge on Black river, six miles below Kingstreo, 
by General Marion, and Miss Mouzon heard and counted 
the guns of the British as they tore the branches of the 
trees above the heads of the Whigs who were fighting as 
it were in the sight of their own wives and children to 
.save them from worse calamity than they had experienced 
a few months before. Yet Miss Mouzon's recollections of 
the scenes of the Revolution were not more interesting, 
perhaps, than the more peaceful and happy ones of the 
church. Early taught the lessons of religion and attend- 
ance on the worship of the sanctuary, it was but natural 
for her to treasure up the traditions of the fathers as well 
as remember events that occurred in her own day. Of the 
Ministers and Elders of Williamsburg Church and of the 
principal events in its history, she had a very accurate 
knowledge back to the time of the Revolution, and from 
her lips many details were gathered a few years since, 
which would have been otherwise irrevocably lost. For 
about thirty years she had followed the Saviour, having 
professed her love to Him during the ministry of the Rev. 
John M. Erwin. and united with the church. During the 
last ten years of her life she was seldom able to visit the 
house of God. But although infirm in body she was 
iitrong in faith, and nothing seemed to her more refreshing 



42 BAYS OF YORE, OR 

tliah the prayer-meetings t^at were frequently held at tlic 
Louse where- she resided. Never was she found too feeble 
to enjoy the services, though borne from her own chamber 
to recline on the parlor sofa during the exercises. Many, 
too, were the conversations enjoyed by her Pastor with her 
in reference to her evidences for Heaven. She delighted 
to talk of her future prospects, and of her departure, 
whicli she felt to be near. No doubts nor darkness ol)- 
scured the brightness of her hope, whicli was of that hum- 
ble yet confiding kind that maketli not ashamed. Looking 
forward from the scenes j^f this world she was ever ready 
to say with the devout Psalmist, " I shall be satisfied when 
I awake with thy likeness." Thus another of those links 
that connected us with the past has been sundered. We 
felt when conversing with her as though we held commu- 
nion with one who had come from the grave, because those 
of her own generation were all there. The venerable 
members of that venerable church had fallen, one by one, 
before, vsome even passing their four-score years, until she 
was left like a lone tree where a forest once stood. Many 
v\^ho were her juniors preceded her to glory, and now to- 
gether they rejoice, where partings are no more. 

" Z. A. W., Dalton, Georgia." 
The Family Tabic of Henry and Ann Mouzon reads 
thus: Their first child was Ann, after her mother ; she was 
born on the 19th of September, 1738. Their second was 
Esther, on the 20th of November, 1739; then Williani 
Henri/, May 18th, 1741, and was married on the 10th of 
January, 1769, at the age of twenty-eight years, by the 
Rov. Mr. Spencer, of Black River, to Susanna, the daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Ann Taylor ; she was born on the Ist 
of December, 1752, consequently she was a bride at sweet 
seventeen. Their children were first, x\nn, born October 
8th, 1769. an told, on Sundav. at 11 o'clock, forenoon; 



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OR 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 



BY THE 

ANCIENT LADY, 

ADTHOK Of "OUR F0RBFATHBR8 THEIR H0MB8 AND THEIR CHURCHES." 

AC, &C. 



C HARLESTON : 

BROAD STREET, 

1870. 



Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by 

MRS. E. A. POYAS, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 






WILLIAM G MA2YCK, PRINTER, 
56 Broad St., Charleston. 






MYMH. 



in the morn of life, when youth 

With vital ardor glows, 
And shines in all the fairest charms 

That beauty can disclose : 

Deep in thy soul, before its powers 

Are yet by vice enslaved, 
Be thy Creator's glorious name 

And character engraved : 

Ere yet the shades of sorrow cloud 

The sunshine of thy days ; 
And cares and toils, in endless round. 

Encompass all thy ways ; 

Ere yet thy heart the woes of age, 

With vain regret, deplore, 
And sadly muse on former joys, 

That now return no more. 

True wisdom, early sought and gain'd. 

In age will give thee rest : 
then, improve the morn of life, 
. To make its evening blest. 



^ 



D^YS OF YORE, 



OR 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 



LETTER L 

Charleston, April 20th, 1860. 
My Dear Young Friends. 

After a very moderate siesta my pen has resumed its 
occupation to tell you that 

<'I am not Old — tliovigh j^ears have cast 

Tliciv weary shadows on my way ; 

I am not old — though youth has passed 

On rapid wings away ; ^ 

For in my heart a fountain flows, 

And round it pleasant thoughts repose. 

And sympathies and feelings high 

Spring like the stars on evening's sky. 

"I am not Old — Time may have set 
His signet on my brow ; 
And some faint furrows there have met. 
Which care must deepen now. ; 
Yet ^lemory a chaplet weaves, 
Of fresh young buds and verdant leaves ; 
Thus still in fancy I can twine 
Thoughts sweet as floWers that once were mine.'^ 



n,n 

stii 



.!^ever,to grow old in feeling should be our daily prayer 

i effort; convinced that although a Father's hand has 

ewn many a sorrow in our pathway, it has placed 
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DAYS OF YORP:, OR 



joys there also, in the kindness and sympathy of friends. 
Life with its quick succession of interesting and useful 
occupation, leaves us little leisure for growing old, al- 
though much for doing good. To merit the "Well doiie' 
at the great Tribunal, it is not requisite that you should 
be what the world calls "highly accomplished" or tliat 
too great care and cost be bestowed on your persons; oh 
no, rather let the utmost of your aspiring be to attain 
wisdom and piety. Let not one of those accomplishments 
be wanting that are required to set you off to the best 
advantaire, and render vou not deficient in the courts a- 
bove. Fitted for that home, filled with celestial treasures 
and endless attractions, where you shall freely recieve 
an undisputed inheritance, where you will not only be 
actively engaged, but daily improving in the knowledge 
of God and the Universe , to the great increase of your 
own happiness and that of the assembled multitude of 
saints and angels. Preparatory to that blissful state, 
you my dear young friends can become ministering spirit 
in human form. In the huts and at the hearths of 
widowed want and sorrow, and in the lowly habitations 
of vice and ignorance the tread of your feet may not be 
a strange sound, you need not walk without balm in 
your hands througl\ the world, applying it wherever 
you see wounds. At the bed of death you can be found 
with soft tones and soundless tread. "The tender and the 
faithful wife too, twining her mysterious self, like a 
green and flowery wreath, around every stern and rug- 
ged duty which rises in the path of her husband's life 
is truly an angel on earth." Yes, as maiden, wife or Tlrid- 
ow, like the angels' let your footsteps be gentle, your 
touch tender, your voices soft and harmonious. Let 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 3 

your hints to dull and careless pilgrims through the 
wilderness of life, be both free and courteous ; and as 
angels do you not only arouse the sleepers, but after- 
wards help them on their way to the right. Yes, yes — 

"•I have seen angels by the sick one's pillow 
Their's was the soft tone, and the soundless tread, 
When smitten hearts were drooping like the willow, 
They stood, 'between the living and the dead.' 

And by his side there moved a form of beauty. 
Strewing sweet flowers along his path of life, 
And looking up with meek and love blent duty, 
I called her angel, but he called her wife. 



! many a spirit walks the world unheeded, 
That when its veil of sadness is laid down, 
Shall soar aloft with pinions unimpeded. 
And wear its glory like a starry crown." 

And are you not almost angelic as you calmly pursue 
your daily course, as a daughter whose filial love prompts 
to share all her parents cares and fatigues, as far as com- 
patible with your station and ability, not merely as a 
duty but a privilege. Well is it with the youthful mai- 
den when the whole warp and woof of her heart is com- 
posed of devotion to father, mother, brothers and sisters, 
a happy household. Too soon perhaps may the time ar- 
rive when she may be constrained to exclaim "alas, for 
man's stability." 

As life wears on, learn to reflect that you have watch- 
ful friends above, in saints and angels, take care that 
you disappoint not their hopes, and as regards this world 
that you.disgrace not your ''Forefathers" or cause the 
names of your "Ancestors" to be despised; born of 



4 DAYS OF YOKE, OR 

honorable parentage, learn to be wise, vet without an 
immoderate esteem of self, lest such foU^ should justly 
l^rovoke censure. Regard home as your true sphere, 
where every thing should be managed with promptitude 
and decision, aim not to be witty or brilliant, but good 
tempered and sensible. "Never be found seeking to 
intrude on the attributes of the other sex ; rather let the 
objects of your pursuit be to sooth pain, alleviate suf- 
fering, soften discord, solace the time-w^orn spirit on 
earth; and to train the youthful ones for heaven; thus 
employed, may you each steal noiselessly on to your 
appointed bourne, '"the world forgetting, by the world 
forgot" having no ill fortune to force you into a pub- 
licity, little consistent with your taste or natural sphere, 
but be enabled to pass your time quietly in such gentle 
occupations as are woman's best employment. Thank- 
ful that your lot has been cast in an age and country 
wliere men have the gallantry to allow you to be a com- 
ponent part of creation, for we cannot forget that in dark 
days women were utterly and entirely overlooked; and 
that it was the promulgation of the Christian religion 
that first elevated them to a high station in society. And 
remember that with such advantages as you now possess 
each individual has the power of perpetual improvement, 
and in so far, the control of her own destiny, and each 
generation having the chance of educating their succes- 
sors better than the last, our race must have the power 
of illimitable advancement. And when death approach- 
es, and the solemn scenes of eternity unfold themselves 
to your view, may you be enabled to read your title clear 
to a habitation not made with hands, eternal in tlie heav- 
ens. And now that the shades of night call to refresh- 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST 5 

ing slumbers, may you all retire with calm hearts, and 
arise with cheerful spirits when the day dawns upon new 
duties and pleasures to be performed and enjoyed — 
Thus prays your sincere friend 

The Ancient Lady. 



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- LETTER 11. 



SumwerviUe^ Mr. Yoses Hoteh \^ i 

Tuesday, July 2.Uh, 1860. j ^^ 

"Fair and young thou blooniest now 
AVliilst I full many a year have told ; 
But read the ]\eavt and not the brow, 
Then shalt thou find I am not old." 

Illness, nij dear friends, ■sveall know incapacitates for 
every exertion either physical or mental; months have 
elapsed since the date of our last epistle to you, and even 
now that the pen is resumed it is guided by such a feeble 
hand that the writing may prove as diificult to decipher 
as ancient hieroglyphics; unlike its former self, when 
although entirely without beauty, it had, notwithstand- 
ing the great merit of distinctness, and plainness so de- 
sirable in a letten or manuscript. Tlie great Proprietor 
of life has seen fit to revoke the lease of existence to 
youthful ones around us, their short allotted terms hav- 
ing expired, whilst led by His unerring hand to this 
health restoring spot, your aged friend may continue y£t 
for a time traversing this world's wilderness depths, 
with its pleasures so facinating, its persuits so engros- 
sing. Yet to her the world is becoming stripped of its 
counterfeit charms its hollowness, the treachery of its 
promises and the fleeting nature of its most enduring 
friendships; no longer may she delude herself with false 
hopes and lofty aspirations as respects the things of time 
but better far turn steadfastly to reflect upon that glori- 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 7 

ous day which is to know no night ; the eternal noon-tide 
whence all shadows do flee away. Reconciled to earth's 
severest dicipline, by the thought of that endless, sinless, 
and sorrowless immortality held up to view by the word 
of inspiration, may we all go on our way rejoicing; striv- 
ing to bear with calm equanimity each encountered grief, 
and having been kept through all life's dangerous way 
never suffered from His pasture to rove, may we all sit 
down together in the bright world above, where neither 
change or disappointment can ever reach or disturb us, 
and where our path can no longer be hedged up with 
thorns and thistles. 

This charming, rural, picturesc[ue town with its health 
promoting atmosphere, is situated twenty-two miles from 
our City, four and a half from the Ashley River. It 
is partly in Charleston and Colleton Districts the divid- 
ino; line of St. James' Goose Creek and St. Georoje's 
Colleton passing through it. "This delightful summer 
resort, has for sixty years been noted for the salubrity 
of its climate, which is delightful throughout the year. 
The temperature during the Summer months is warm 
at mid-day, the thermometer not unfrequently rang- 
ing from 90 to 95 degrees, yet the nights are cool and 
refreshing. The atmosphere is remarkably dry and 
balmy, inducing indolence and sleep. The ponds and 
water courses in every direction may be the immediate 
causes of its salutary condition, as they drain the land, 
while a thick foliage of trees and luxuriant undergrowth 
shut in any poisonous exhalations that might otherwise 
arise. These ponds and branches, however are mostly 
running streams, where the waters do not stagnate." 

Well do we remember the ancient hospitalities of this 



8 DAYS OF YoRE, OR 



place, and the genial spirit of its inhabitants ; the deer 
hunts of the olden time, with tlie dinners that followed. 
There are a few of the descendants of those worthies of 
the chase and feast, still residing here, who inherit the 
hospitable spirit of their fathers, as we can well attest 
having spent two delightful months in private families, 
carefully nursed into health, andforgetfulness of wrongs, 
before allowed to sojourn among strangers. We are 
told just now that the inhabitants of this place seem to 
be under the influence of a new spirit, "The sluggish apa- 
thy of the past has disappeared and an enthusiasm for 
progress pervades the community. We note the expen- 
diture to adorn private residences, and the turn out of 
handsome equipages, so unlike those of the olden time. 
We are now, however, in the hands of a new adminis- 
tration, with the Rev. Mr. Limelicuse at the head. 
Abundantly are we blessed with schools and churches, 
the former kept by Mr. Hughs, Mr. John Gadsden and 
Mr. Gray. Of the Episcopal Church tli^ Rev. Mr. Philip 
Gadsden is pastor, and on the Sabbath the solemn bell 
of St Paul's is heard, calling us to worship. The Meth- 
odist meeting has circuit preachers. The Presbyterian 
pulpit is tilled by the Rev. Andrew Pickens Smith of 
Alabama, ayoungman eminent alike for his social qual- 
ites, his piety, learning and abilities." He is the great 
grand son of the Rev. Josiah Smith who was born in 
1704 and died in 1781 — he was the son of Dr. Geor<::je, 
and grand son of the first Landgrave Thomas Smith, who 
was born at Exeter, England, in 1648, and died in 
Charles Town, South Carolina in 1694, aged 46. "There 
still exists, within a few miles of this town, the noble 
old relic of Newington. The standing and cross walls, 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 9 

some fifty feet high, of a princely mansion, yet remain. 
The grounds are shut in by huge oaks, with a dense 
tano-le of vine and underbrush obstructing the elevated 
portals of this once imposing and massive structure. 
The fish pond, with its waters darkened by the overhan- 
o-ino: branches of immense trees, is still to be seen in 
gloomy shade, a melancholy type of past luxury and 
present decay. Nor can the visitor behold the noble 
avenue, in part remaining, that leads to this grand old 
ruin, without experiencing emotions of a sad and quick- 
ening nature. The building was destroyed by fire soon 
after 1845 — the precise date we have been unable to 
learn : but in the vear above named a friend assures 
us the buildins; was in good condition, and he went 
through the rooms of the mansion, which were furnished 
with "dark walnut," in a corresponding style of elegance 
to the external appearance of the place. The property 
w^ith muc hof the surrounding country, is now owned by 
the Hon. Henry A. Middleton of Charleston," (he niar- 
ried a Miss Kinloch). One of the earliest settlers of 
Summcrville of w^hom we have any positive evidence, 
was Mr. James Rousan Stewart, w^lio» having in 1793 
sold his Beech Hill Plantation to Mr. Richard Scott, 
from St. Andrew's parish, soon after that period located 
here, with Col. Isaac Walter, they were followed by Dr. 
William Morgan whose wife was a sister of Mr. Stewart, 
and then came Mr. Iiaac Perry, subsequently to 1800, 
also Capt. Joseph Waring, of Clay Field, and Dr. Rich- 
ard Waring, his cousin, from Clay Hill adjoining. 

With Col. Walter came his step-daughter Miss E. W. 
Hopkins, she was "born in Charlestown in 1771, and 
died here at the age of 86 years. "About the begin- 



10 DAYS OF YORS, OR 

ning of the 19th century Dr. Bloomingberg also removed 
hither, his family emigrated hence about twenty years 
ago ; a number of other settlers soon succeeded him, 
whose numerous descendants are still residents of the 
Town, enjoying in a very remarkable degree the health 
of its climate and the fascination of its agreeable society; 
but not until a few years since has any material increase 
to the population taken place. Notu^ the old village 
has become somewhat metropolitan in its appearance, 
regulations and taste. The primative cottage homes of 
the early inhabitants are fast giving place to a more 
pretending style of architecture. Handsome churches 
and commodious hotels abound, such as Mr. Brown's, 
Capt. Vose's and Mr. Cooper's Paradise, where many 
persons spend their summers, not because they are sick 
but that they may keep in good condition, enjoying the 
pure air and pleasant company." "The Marshal, who 
is Chief of Police, 'owns his horse' and is a terror to 
evil-doers ; and the new Town Hall, with its ornamen- 
tal cupola, sends forth its edicts and ordinances, with 
due formality, for the better regulation of grave and 
admiring citizens. Summerville has also its suburban 
as well as its urban allurements. Attractive farms are 
just beyond its limits, and within an hour's ride are the 
less aspiring villages of Stallsville c^nd Smithville. It 
has likewise its fashionable drives, thronged, when in 
Season, Avith gay equipages and fair equestrians — and 
there are shady walks where lovers range through w^his- 
pering groves, in sight of running brooks, and breathe 
their vows in hearing of the singing birds." The last 
census of the Town and its immediate vicinity was ta- 
ken with the following result ; 



SHADOWS CF THE PAST. 11 

Number of White Males, 259 

" " Females, .... . 289 

White Population, 548 

Black " 540 

Total Number of Inhabitants,. . . . . 1088 

Number of dwellings and servants' houses, . 372 
Churches, Episcopal, Presbyterian and 

Methodist, 3 

Stores, 9 

Hotels and Boarding Houses, 5 

Public buildings, Council Hall and Ball-room 2 

Total number of Buildings, 891 

Horses, 129. 
We will now draw your attention to an ancient place 
of Sepulture in this immc diate neighbourhood, yet scarce- 
ly known of. This solitary resting place of the dead 
is situated in an old field about a hundred to a hundred 
and fifty yards from the old Orangeburg road, but little 
travelled since the establishment of the South Carolina 
Rail Road; it is only four miles from Summerville, be- 
longing to the Mount Boone tract in the Olden Time, 
and where rest the mortal remains of some of those who 
inhabited the Boone Mansion. On a massive slab about 
five or six inches thick, apparantly of granite and on 
a foundation of brick surmounted by an urn is the fol- 
lowing inscription. 

Here Lyeth the Body of 

Mr. Joseph Boone, 

« 

W ho departed this Life the 24"' 

day of February 1734, 

Aged 57 years. 



12 DAYS OP YORE, OR 

Mr. Boone liad early in life been united to Anne, a 
daughter of Col. Joseph Blake, the faithful friend to 
Avhom in 1694, the first Landgrave Thomas Smith left 
his stive?' tobacco box. iLer sister Sarah was the first 
wife of the second Land<i;rave Smith, who died four vears 
after Boone, aged 68. 

When in 1706 the Gov. Sir Nathaniel Johnson, re- 
garding the dissenters as enemies to the constitution of 
both Church and State, framed a bill in such a manner 
as to exclude then, entirely from the House of Repre- 
sentitives,, Joseph Boone was sent to England to petition 
Queen Anne in their behalf. His widow in her will da- 
ted December 1st, 1749, begins thus : "My desire is to 
have a private funeral, and to be iriterred at my planta- 
tion, called Mount Boone. Item : I give to my beloved 
nephew, the Hon. Joseph Blake, Esqr., my Dorchester 
plantation, given me by my mother, called MountBoone, 
with all the buildings and im.provements thereon, unto 
him, and to his heirs and assignees forever." After 
many other legacies she goes on to direct her executor 
(Henry Smith, of Goose Cieck mansion.) and her exec- 
utiix, (Mary his mother) to sell all of lier estate, either 
in South Carolina or elsewhere, giving all the money 
in trust to her nephew the Hon. Joseph Blake to be put 
out at interest by him, for the sole, separate and dis- 
tinct use of her beloved grand daughter Anne, the in- 
terest to be paid her annually, without the power, control 
or intermeddlir fjof her husband, Andrew Slann, and at 
her deat h to be divided between her children. The Will 
in full, you have read in our "Carolina in the Olden 
Time." We find no monument to her memory — her suc- 
cessor gave the English nameof Newirgton to his inher" 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 13 

itance. On removing to England Col. Glaze was ap. 
pointed his agent, and divided his time between the 
Ponds Plantation and Newington, where the Ancient 
Lady has often counted the hundred windows on the 
front of that noble edifice, sang childish songs to its in" 
dulgent inmates and danced minuets and im'prom'ptit 
fancy-dances to the grand piano touched by the large 
stately and all accomplished Miss Ann Smyth of Colum. 
bia, the sister of Mrs. Glaze and frequently her guest 
for months. 

The other inscriptions in that '*city of the dead" are 
upon upright stones, and read as follows : 

Sacred to 

the memory of Mrs. 

Catherine Grimes, 

who departed this life 

October 13^^ 1823, 

Aged 60 years. Also 

her husband 

John Grimes, 

{the date defaced) 



Sacred to 
the memory of 

Mr. Henry Clayton, 
who departed 

this life 21^^ July, 1820. 
aged 39 years. 



14 DAYS OF YORE, OR 

I N R I 




I H S 

Sacred to 

the memory of Mrs. 

Ann L. Gell, 

Wife of Mr. John Gell, Junr. 

and daughter of Mr. 

Henry and Mrs. Levinea Clayton, 

who departed this life 

m^ September, 1823, aged 

16 years. May she rest in peace. 

AMEN. 



I N Rl 




I H S 

Sacred to 

the memory of Mr. 

John Gell, Junr. 

Who died 23^^ of June, 

1824, aged 26 years. 

May he too rest in peace. 

amen. 

And sooner or later shall we all pass into the land of 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 15 

oblivion, not very long to be remembered through the 
changes of this busy, changing life, by those fast tram- 
ping at our heels Whilst Time endures may each of 
us hear the Directing Voice saying "This is the way, 
walk ye in it," then will He be our defence and refuge 
in the hour of disolution. Good night to you, and may 
each succeeding morning find us all better prepared for 
the glorious waking-time of immortality, when "the day 
shall break" and earth's shadows shall forever "flee 
away." 

Yours, 

The Ancient Lady. 



16 DAYS OF YORE, OR 

LETTER III, 

Summe7'viUe, Tuesday^ Slsf July^ 1860. 
GROWING OLD. 

" Do ye think of the days that are gone, Jeanie, 

As ye sit by your fire at night ? 
Do ye wish that the morn would bring back the time, 

When your heart and your steps were light ?" 
" I think of the days that are gone, Robin, 

And of all that I joyed in then ; 
But the brightest that ever arose on me, 

I have never wished back again." 

" Do ye think of the hopes that are gone, Jeanie, 

As ye sit by your fire at night ? 
Do ye gather them up as they faded fast 

Like buds with an early blight?" 
'<I think of the hopes that are gone, Robin, 

And I mourn not their stay was fleet ; 
For they fell as the leaves of the red rose fall 

And were even in falling, sweet." 

" Do ye think of the friends that at are gone, Jeanie, 

As ye sit by your fire at night ? 
Do you wish they were round you again once more. 

By the hearth that they made so bright ? 
I think of the friends that have gone, Robin, 

They are dear to my heart as then ; 
But the best and the dearest among them all, 

I have never wished back again." 

What a spirit of resignation breathes through this 
poetry. We wish some one would own or claim this 
anonymous song, it is so very charming for simplicity 
and pathos. The sensible writer of "Woman's thoughts 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 17 

of women" has introduced them into her pleasant and 
instructive book, as selected or borrowed. 

Such an aged piece of paper has been shown of late 
that we copy for our young friends its entire contents 
— news of one hundred years ago, the year in which 
Catharine Gendron marked her sampler, now the prop- 
erty of the Ancient Lady : 

THE AMERICAN 

A man on 

A figure (^/\<^ II ^ ^ifViV Horseback 




§|a:«| 



Mercury. ^AVV iV it;' 1^ II P SimVIt llJtmil P^ Trumpet. 

From Thurfday October 7^^ to 
Thursday October 14^^ 1731. 

tells of "an Act of Parliament in 1727, the first year of 
the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Second, 
by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and 
Ireland — King, Defender of the Faith, et cetera.'' "An 
Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in 
America, directly into Ireland, goods not enumerated 
in any Act of Parliament as forbidden — such as sugar, 
tobacco, cotton, wool, indigo, ginger, speckle wood, or 
Jamaica wood, fustick or other dying wood ; rice, molas- 
ses, beaver skins and other furs ; copper ore, pitch, tar, 
turpentine, masts, yards and bowsprits, of the growth, 
product or manufacture of the said Plantations, and 
such things as shall be imported into Ireland, must be 
in British Shipping, where the Master and Three 
fourths of the Mariners at least, are British." This 
scrap of paper has been preserved, from the fact of an 
old bill being pasted on it, bearing the names of John 
Walking and Mary Jones. It belongs to Mr. Titus 
Bissell, Scnr. The same old gentleman has favored 



18 DAY?^ OF YOKE, OK 

US "with the loan of an account book, kept at the store 
of Mr. William Logan at the northeast corner of 
Church and Elliott streets, dated 1761, (close upon one 
hundred years ago). " Charleston May 14th — Paid 
George Saxby in fiall for my Note £1000, Interest i;i8 
13s 4d. 15th, Lent William Savage on F. Clayton's 
Note X500. 16th, Paid the freight on Stephen Lord's 
bed 10s. For a keg of Butter 53 ft) weight at 3s. and 6d. 
£9 5s 6d. Isabella Orr bought ribbons, crucls and tea. 
Lionel Chalmers, snuft'. Theodore Trezeva)it, 10 sticks of 
Tailor's twist. Ann Watson, dress maker, crow-silk and 
ferret. Edward Fenwicke pullies and pins. Adam and 
Milford, silk mitts at 33s 9d. Twenty three dozen 
hinges at 65s, £6 10s. Josiah Perry, Nankeen aiid 
brown Holland, 3 yds. Garlix, Ten yards white Chintz, 
Six pair Women's Thread Jiose^ Three pair of Boys' do, 
gloves, ribbons, one ivory Fan 45s. Four dozen fine 
clear lawn handkerchiefs, two china bows, one Port- 
manteau Trunk 110s. Nine yards Duroy, Wide Du. 
rant. Coat and breast buttons, silk, twist and garlix. 
Blue Breeches pattern 70s, Buckrum, Mitts, and tno 
Wax Necklaces 30s, total £105 17s. May 19th.— 
Richard Bedon, senr., two loaves sugar. Thomas Scott 
sugar and shot, two pair cotton hose, one Keg Powder, 
Dozen Flints. David Boillatt, Poplin, Persian and 
paper. Isaac Holmes buff Breeches pattern 70s, girls 
shoes. Martha Logan for twelve pieces India Calico, 
110s, Twelve gallons of Vinegar, 20 oz. of Nutmegs and 
Cloves, Two pair of gloves. 

James Poyas One tin candlestick 8s 9d, one Spitt 32s 
6d. Richard King, Osnabirgs, &c — Archd. McNeill) 
sugar &c — Josiah Pendarvis, blue serge, shallon, Osna- 



SHADOWS or THE PAST. 19 

birgs kc — £18 6s 3d. May 21st, Georc/c Logan blanket 
70s, purple calico, £9 17s. Charles Dawson, women's 
gloves and ribbon. Downes and Jones for one pound of 
spermacati £1 7s 6d. John Beswicke, and Co., Richard 
Capers, Richard Beresford, William Fuller, Elizabeth 
James. JoJm Logan to David Boillatt for five dozen 
bottles at 15s, .£3 15s. To John Beswick and Co., for 
goods 'f Smith. Adam and Sharp £995 5s 2d. Ann 
Wainwright for sundries £17. May 22d — John and 
William Guerin three piec^ s of brown rolls, gloves, 
thread hose &c. — Ogilvie and Forbes, Garlix ai.d brown 
Holland, and boys thread hose, 15s. Nicholson and 
Bamfield, sugar, calico, k shoes. William Savage one 
Fan 40s, one niece of Nankeen 90s. Thomas Smith 
ten yards of white ChiiUz £22, four yards Durant 55s, 
Dishes, 62s 6d. David and John Deas, Portmanteau 
trunk £5 10s. Davies u,nd Co., Garlix, buttons, brush 
and coffee. Downs and Jones, one blue breeches pat- 
tern £3 5s. Dacosta and Farr, tea. Daniel Doyley, 
one hogshead of sugar. John Jones, Mitts and salt. 
Ancrum, Lance and Loocock, one bottle of oil £1. 
May 23d — Alexander Garden, one pair of calico shoes 
and ribbon. Ann Wainwright one piece of cambrick 
£8. Peter Butler, ribbon and shoes. Levi Durand, 
girls mitts, one sett knives and forks, ribbon and shoes, 
twenty yards of gauze, £10. Benjamin Fuller six pair 
of knitted cotton hose, 65s, pair of Pinchbeck Buckles 
35s. Thomson and Hunter six dozen gilt breast but- 
tons. Martha Logan canvas, three hams, three pair 
of calico shoes, twelve pounds of candles, one water Jug 
at 15s, four pair of gloves, two tumblers, one sugar- 
dish, two bottles of Mustard £3 15s. Nicholas Zorn 



:!{) DAYS OF YORE, OR 

Henry Crum, rum and sugar. Sarah Boddie. Dun- 
bar and Young one bottle of Walnut catsup. Richard 
Capers, £21 7s 7d. Alexander Tuffe. May 28th— 
Estate of Richard Capers, £S. William Capers for 
Iflack mitts 12s. John Sweet, W'm. Lloyd. Mary 
Douxsaint, nine yards of white Chintz. James Kirk- 
wood one socket spade, £1 7s 6d. Robert Wright fifty 
yards of Osnabrugs. Charles Dewar, three yards of 
Crown Mantua. Joseph Whilden, rum, powder, shot; 
and eight yards of linen. William Trewin calico shoes, 
and spectacles 65.9.. Samuel Cardy, osnabrigs. Es- 
tate of William Fuller, one set of pinchbeck buckles £1 
15.s\ Charles Pinckncy one osnabrigs shirt, one pair 
breeches £1 5s; Richard Hart four kegs of red lead <£12 
Josiah Perry £38. Hester Bonhoste sugar and tea. 
and a cotton gown £5. May 30th — Thomas Bee, one 
silk hat 60s. one pair Flour I aces 25s. John Hon, 
breeches and knee garters, gloves and cotton hose, silk 
twist and buttons X20. Elizabeth Hunt, two osnabrigs 
frocks and two pair of breeches. Henry Young, ?attin 
ribbon. Thomas and William Ellis and Co. John 
Hume, one pair women's mitts. John Logan to John 
Hon £S for a child's crib. Jennet and Wilson. June 
1761. Andrew Marr, Margaret Saunders, one black 
silk hat £3. David Singletary, garlix. June 8th. 
John Logan, for a riding chair £211, Joseph Dra- 
mus. Martha Logan, one set dish matts, 5s. 8d. two 
iiallons of rum 55s. and nails. John Linda r, clothing 
£54. Josinh Pendarvis, paper, per knife, quills, one 
handkerchief one bible. William McLaughling, calico 
shoes £\ 15s. John and William Gudrin, ten yards 
-ofgrey Sagathie, twist, breast buttons, brown Hollands 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST 21 

knee garters, desk lock, bottle of snuif at 25s." This 
store was kept in the former mansion of his grandfa- 
ther Col George, his parents were G-eorge Logan and 
Martha Daniell, as I shall show you in a subsequent ta- 
ble-his first wife Mary Baker died in 1751 and in 1757 
he married Margaret, the daughter of Mr. Crokatt, a 
merchant, and removed from St. George's parish to 
Charleston, His mother and other relatives are shown 
as purchasers from him. Her name will ever live as as- 
sociated with horticulture, she having written "A Trea- ^^ 
tise on Gardening" when 70 years of age, and died in 
1779 aged 77 years, wasted but majestic still, shrunk- 
en yet neither melanchoUy or austere, never enveloping 
her house in gloom, nor banishing comfort from her 
board; but happy and cheerful to the last. Possessed 
of a high order of intellect, great energy and a noble 
perseverance, crowned by sound practical piety, and 
busy in good works she descended peacefully to the grave. 
How consoling the reflection, that the hour which to the 
unwary and unwatchful would have been one of darkness 
and terror was to her the eve of the blessed Sabbath of 
Eternity, the thresh-hold and the portal of a world of 
endless joy. Alas ! how little are we influenced and 
impressed by the solomn records of death around us. 
Friend after friend departs; the circle of our acquain- 
tance is narrowed, ever sounding the proclamation with 
fresh emphasis in our ears "Be ye also ready" for your 
departure hence. 

- You have read in "Our Forefathers" of John Wat- 
son, the English gardener of Mrs. Henry Laurens ; he 
afterwards formed a spacious garden for himself on the 
ground where Dr. Deas now has a fine dwelling on Chap- 



22 V DAYS OF YORE, OR 

el Street, near the North Eastern Rail Road Depot 
and subsequently on a larger lot stretching from King 
to and beyond Meeting Street, erecting the first Nurse- 
ry garden in Carolina, from which he introduced seve- 
ral productions of ours into the public gardens of En- 
gland. This good example was highly influential, others 
caught the diffusive ray ; Robert Squibs did honor to 
the Province by circulating its curious in<ligenous plants. 
These promising attempts were all laid waste in the Re- 
volution. At the siege of Charleston in 1780 Col. Jno. 
Laurens and his light infantry prepared and brought 
facines of choice exotics, with elegant shrubbery from his 
father's Eastern Paradise to the lines, repaired the breach- 
es in the fortifications, where most required aiid then re- 
sumed their post of danger in front of the Horn-works. 
His mother you have been told died in 1770. Watson's 
garden was revived after the war and continued for 
many years, as we observe that in the paper of Fri- 
day the 23d. of December 1785, printed by J. V. 
Burd and R. Haswell, No. 24 East Bay at $5.00 per 
annum, he has the following notice "Fresh seeds at 
my garden near Charleston, John Watson." The same 
paper offers for sale "150 bbls. of Tar and 50 of Tur- 
pentine in lots of ten barrels, by Gibbes and Graham." 
*'Jacob Jacobs has a negro wench and child for sale." 
"Choice London particular Madeira wine. No. 5 Elliott 
street, by William McWhann." "Demands against 
the Estate of Mr. John Balfour of Cheraw District will 
render an account to William Lindsey, No. 46 Bay.*' 
''The creditors of Richard Latham, gunsmith, apply 
to Joseph Gaultire." "Garden seeds just ariived by 
Captain Jay, sold by William Lee 127 King street.'' 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 28 

"For St. Eustatia the Schooner Betsey, apply to the 
Captain or to Jeremiah Brower 98 King street." ''A 
very elegant assortment of 3ilks, Sattins, Ribbons and 
Edgings : Soap, Wine in cases. Oil in barrels, and a 
few hundred bushels of St. Ube's Salt. Tobacco will 
be taken ir. payment, Harry Grant No. 90 Meeting 
,, street ; and all persons indebted to the same, or to 
[ Grant Simons are requested as soon as their Cropn 
: come to Market to make payment ; those who cannot 
i- accomplish the whole, surely as honest men, they can 
have no objection to give their Bonds. For sale a oom.- 
pleat set of Drawing Room Furniture just imported for 
• a gentleman who means to leave the State, to be sold 
cheap for Cash." '*Three guineas reward for Collins 
or Dick run away." ''Wine, coal and citron, in boxes 
to be sold on board the ship Thomas, Capt. Hail, at 
Jervey and Walter's wharf, apply to Mr. William Ma- 
cleod and Co. No. 17 Elliot street." "For sale a re- 
markably fine handy handsome Mulatto hoy^ fifteen 
years of age," "Quantity of Lumber by Primrose and 
Thomson for sale." "Thaver and Bartle have on hand 
for sale. Brandy, Riding Chairs, and one Kittareen." 
'•The brig Sally at Scott's wharf." "Horses for sale 
by Richard Humphreys." "At 113 Broad street for 
cash only, a few tons of Brazillitto, Lignum-Vitae, Ma- 
hogany in large logs, and Cofi'ee ; by the sloop Aurora, 
Capt. William Eve, from New Providence, Daniel 0' 
Hara." For London a new British-built ship, Charlotte 
(wife of George the third,) John Pitt, Commander, at 
Prioleau's wharf." "Lawson, Price and Co. to Harry 
Grant for sale two hundred barrels Turpentine, Negro 
cloth, Blankets and Irish Linens." "For London the 



24 DAYS OP YORE, OR 

ship Sally, J. Creighton Master, for freight or passage 
apply to Thompson and Lenox No. 105 Broad street." 
"For Liverpool the ship Thompson, Joseph Bell Com- 
mander." "For sale or charter, for any Port within 
the Straits (being provided with a Mediterranean Pass) 
or any Port in France or Spain ; the ship America, 
Edward Allen Commander, apply to him or to Daniel 
Bourdeaux." "The beautiful fast-sailing ship George, 
lying opposite Russell's wharf, apply to Arthur Har- 
per on board or to Daniel O'Hara." "Best Brocaded 
Lutestrings for sale." ''Arnoldus VanderhorFt, Inten- 
dant of Charleston, 1785." Thus end our gleanings, 
lest we neglect to return and inhale the balmy zephyrs 
of those Gardens of which we were speaking so cheerily. 
In the late volume "Our Forefathers," you have had a 
full account of the celebrated traveller and botanist of 
1786, Andr^ Michaux. who established a botanic garden 
ten miles from Charleston, now all passed away: from 
which we have had the Fragrant Bay, the Citterina, 
and the Tea-plant or fragrant Olive. More than a cen- 
tury ago, Mrs. Lamboll had in the south-west extremity 
of King street, a garden richly stored with flowers and 
vegetables for family use. Mrs. Martha Logan and 
Mrs. Hopton, emulated the good example, in Meeting, 
George, Logan and King streets, on spots now covered 
with fine buildings of various sorts. The former lady, 
you will ever remember as the eldest daughter of the 
last Proprietary Governor, Robert Daniell, who died in 
1718 ; she was married at the age of 15 to the eldest 
son of Col. George Logan, who came from Aberdeen in 
Scotland at a very early period. And when in our next 
letter you have had the family tables you will be con- 



SHADOWS OIF THE PAST. 25 

strained to confess that not even Mr. Charles Fraser 
himself with all his Legendary lore could surpass our 
laborious research on this subject Alike in taste we are 
now in age, fast resigning the pen to others, since like 
Autumn leaves, seared, shrivelled and wan; Nature and 
Providence are summoning us to be gathered to our 
fathers; whilst the shades of our many departed friends 
rise up befare us warning that it is time to follow them to 
that land of rest The companions of our youth, and 
the associates of our middle age where are they ? Even 
he, with his comforts thick about him, continuing in 
the habitation long possssed and surrounded by Avise, ac- 
tive and obliging gentlemen must sometimes find himself 
almost a solitary being in the midst of a new generation, 
whose faces are all strange to him as his must be to 
them We are told that in him is to be found every 
thing open, frank and truthful ; experience has enlarg- 
ed his mind and improved his former ideas of many 
things, guarding against the evil man's insidious snares 
and temptations he is nearing his end in peace. And 
as Job tells us that '^Days speak and multitude of years 
speak wisdom" let us be thankful for the guidance of 
those who have learned much by expeiience. 

Yours, 

The Ancient Lady. 



^ DAYS OF YORE, OK 

LETTER IV. 

Summerville^ Tn^esday\ 14th August, IS^O, 
My dear Friends: 
We will return to^ 

"Those who speak to us of other yeai'& 

E're we had learned the world was full of tears." 

ROBERT DAN I ELL. 

Whilst tlie correspondent of the Londo-n Time^, writ- 
ing from Washington City, in 1864 — 8, gives us "-Glimp- 
ses of the Future," we, more wise, will take a "Peep 
into the Past" where we shall find tcld by our historians- 
that Governor Archdale having, in 1696, finished his- 
negotiations in Carolina, returned to Britain. Before 
he embarked the Council presented to him an address^ 
to be transmitted to the Proprietors, expressing "the 
deep sense they had of their Lordships' paternal care 
for the colony, in the appointment of a man of such 
ability and integrity to the government, who had been 
so happily instrumental in establishing its peace and se- 
curity." This was laid before them, together with an 
account of the state of the country, and the regulations 
he had established in it, showing the necessity of abolish- 
ing many articles in the constitutions, and framing a 
new plan of government. Accordingly forty-one dif- 
ferent articles were drawn up and sent out by Major 



SHADOWS OF THC PAST. '27 

Robert Daniell in 1698. However when Gov, Joseph 
Blake laid these new laws before the assembly for their 
vussent and approbation, they treated them as they had 
clone the former constitutions, laying them aside. 

In 1700, when James Moore succeeded Joseph Blake 
?is Governor, Daniell, Trott, Ehett and Dearsley were 
his adherents. 

In 1702 Governor M=oore made the expedition against 
St. Augustine. Port Royal was the place of rendez- 
vous, and in September, at the head of his warriors, he 
'embarked. Col. Daniell, with a detached party, was 
sent by the inland passage to make a descent on the town 
from the land, whilst the main body should proceed by 
sea and block up the harbor. The brave Colonel entered 
and plundered the town before their arrival in sight. 
The Spaniards, with four months' provisions, their 
money and most valuable effects, had retired to their in- 
vincible castle. As they could not be dislodged without 
suitable artillery, the valiant Colonel was dispatched 
with a sloop to Jamaica to procure them. But, in the 
meantime, the Governor was induced to raise the siege, 
by the appearance of two Spanish ships of sixteen and 
twenty- two guns near the mouth of the harbor. He 
abandoned his ships and retreated to Carolina by land, 
leaving his vesssls, provisions and ammunition, to en- 
rich the enemy. 

• Col. Daniell, standing in for St. Augustine, found, 
to his surprise, the deranged state of affairs, and with 
difficulty made his escape. We lost only two men in 
this expedition, but it entailed on the young colony a 
debt of six thousand pounds sterling. Four years after 
that they came to return us the compliment of an attack. 



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DAfS OF YORK, OK 



The Govenor, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, hastened down 
from his plantation of ''Silk Hope," in St. Thomas' 
Parish' (where, in 1713, he was buried, and his grave 
is well cared for to the present time). A troop of horse, 
commanded hj Capt. George Logan, soon arrived. Mr, 
Rhett, possessd of conduct and spirit, was commissioned 
Vice-Admiral of our little fleet,- all of which has been 
repeated in "the Carolina of the Olden Time," how near- 
ly three hundred of the foe were killed or taken prison- 
ers, and how the Governor publicly thanked us for the 
unanimity and coura>ge shown in repelling the invaders-. 
On the 15th of April, 1715, commenced the fright- 
ful Indian massacre, when Gov. Craven marched 
against the largest body of savages. He appointed 
Col. Daniell Deputy Governor in his absence. In 
1713, on the death of Sir Anthony Ciaven, the Gover- 
nor received permission to return to England, yet he 
would not abandon the Province whilst menaced with 
danger. John Earl, of Bath, having succeeded Craven 
as Palatine, several persons of character and influence 
in Cai^olina were created Landgraves, among whom 
were Edmund Bellinger, John Baley and Robert Dan- 
iell. Craven, on his departure for England in 1716, 
left Daniell to fill the office of Governor until the plea- 
sure of their masters should be known. During his 
term, in 1717, a change was made in electing the mem-, 
bers of Assembly. He too joined in complaints against 
the government, which could not protect the people, 
anxiously desiring to be taken under the protection of 
a powerful sovereign. Robert Johnson arrived with a 
commission from London, given by Lord Carteret, 
bearing date April 30th, 1717, investing him with the 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 29 

government of the Province, to which office a salary of 
four hundred pounds sterling was annexed. 

Col. Daniell cheerfully retired to Daniell's Island, 
where he died on the 7th of May, 1718, aged 72, and 
there was first buried. His name has become extinct^ 
and his lands possessed by strangers. He has descen- 
dants, however, amongst the Glens, Parkers, Law- 
rences, and the Gantts. But the Logan family are the 
nearest relatives now living. Colored crayon portraits 
of the Governor and his wife, taken in the reign of the 
''good Queen Anne," are in the keeping of their great- 
grand-daughter (Miss Honoria Logan). The Govern- 
or left a widow- and five children. His widow mar- 
ried Col. George Logan, and died in 1742. Martha, 
(lis eldest child, was united to George, the eldest son 
of Col. George Logan (her step-father), from whom 
Mr. William Logan, (39 years our respected Librari- 
an) was descended in a direct line. He having been 
the eldest male of the oldest branch, shall subsequent- 
ly have a ''Family Table" of his own. Robert, the 
Governor's eldest son, married Helen, the daughter of 
Col. George Logan, from whom are the Lawrences 
and Parkers, of St. Thomas' Parish. John, the Gov- 
ernor's second son, removed to North Carolina. Sal- 
ly Daniell married Mr. Blakenay; they left no child. 
A:ine, her sister, married Mr. Conway, by whom, or 
liis desce-ulants, Coitwayborono-li, in tJiis State, was 
mottled. 

To the memory of Gov. Robert Daniell, a slab, 

with suifable inscriptions, was placed by his daughter 

Martha on the family vault, built by her order in St. 

Philip's Church Yard. Tlio no«v chnvr-b extends over 

8* 



30 DAYS OF YORE, OR 

this vault, which is now directly under the altar, north 
of which the slab has been placed, as forming part of 
the pavement around it. There was a corresponding 
one to Col. George Logan, her husband's father, 
which was too much mutilated when our holy and 
beautiful temple, where our fathers worshipped, was 
burned up with fire, and all our pleasant things de- 
stroyed, to be placed in the new sanctuary, but has 
been fixed in the lot of ground east of it, allotted the 
Logan family, in lieu of the family vault over which it 
extends. In removing the remains of Gov. Daniell 
from their first place of sepulture, on the island which 
continues to bear his name, the headstone which 
marked the spot (now so appropriately presented to 
the Historical Society of our city,) was thrown back 
and covered up in the grave, where it lay unheeded or 
unsought for. Its final discovery was wholly provi- 
dential. Mr. Mitchell (I have understood it to have 
been the father of our respectable barrister, Mr. Nel- 
son Mitchell), in having a deep excavation made on 
the plantation, came across the relic of 1718, which he 
thoughtfully and generously presented to Mrs. Parker, 
of George street — whose maiden name was Lawrence. 
To her it has proved a treasured gift — and we are 
made happy by finding what a proper appropriation 
she has made of it. 



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*'Are all the memories of life 

Buried when life has fled ? 
Are v/e forbid to keep again 

The birth-days of the dead ? " 

Geougk E. Shfrlev. 

COL. GEORGE LOGAN. 

In fulfillment of my promise, I now proceed to give 
you a Logan Family Table — a name which preceded 
that of Daniell in the Province — from its union with 
which it seems not to have borrowed any of its lustre, 
having al\\ays stood forth prominently good and pa- 
triotic from a very early period of the settlement. 
Indeed, we seem scarcely ever to have been without a 
George Logan. One of that name is to be found in 
1698 (the year of Col. Daniell's arrival), as one of the 
witnesses, along with F, Randolpn, George Dearsley, 
John Fenning and Jonathan Amory, to the deed re- 
cording the gift of seventeen acres of land to the 
English Church, by that lady of eminent piety and 
liberality, Mrs. Affra Coming, late wife of Capt. John 
Coming, deceased, at that time called " Land situated 
on the north side of Ashley river, next to Charles 
•Town, in Berkley county," now the streets of Went- 
worth, Coming, Beaufain, Glebe and St. Philip. 

At the period of the formation of the St. George's 
Society, in honor of the patron of England, on the 
23d of April, 1733, John Bayley, Esq., was chosen 
President, and, at night, they had an elegant supper 
at the house of Robert Raper, Esq., in Raper's Court. 
On the 21st of July, 1733, there was a call for the 
first quarterly meeting, to be held at the house of Mr. 



32 '/ .^.^' DAYS OF YOEE, OR 



^y^ 



William Pinckiiey, on East Bay, on Monday, the 23(1 
inst. His grand-daughter now occupies the same 
mansion. At that time, Trooper Poinsett's house is 
mentioned as at the southeast C(>rner of Church and 
Elliott streets, opposite across the latter, to that of 
Col. George Logan. His son George it was who mar- 
ried Martha Daniell. Their son William was married 
to Mary, the daughter of Mr. Richard Baker, of Ashley 
river, on the 17th day of January, 1750. Their son 
George was bom in Charleston, on a Sunday, Febru- 
ary 3, 1751. Mary, the wife of William Logan, died 
at Bacon's Bridge, above Dorchester (where he lived 
and had rice stores), on the 25th oi December, 1751. 
She Mas buried at her father's plantation, in St. An- 
drew's Parish. Mr. William Logan married, as his 
second wife, Margaret, the daughter of Mr. John 
Crokatt, mercliant in Charleston, on the 21st of June, 
1757. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. 
Clarke, of St. Philip's Church. Martha their daughter, 
was born in Charleston, on the 28th of October, 1758, 
and died January 5, 1760. Margaret, the second wife 
of William Logan, died in Cliarleston, Tuesday, the 
17th of May, 1785, aged 49 years, 1 month and 2 days. 
She was buried ])y the side of old Mrs. Ramsay's tomb- 
stone, on the i.ovth of St. Philip's Church. George, 
tlie son of William aid Maiy Logan, died on Tuesday, 
the IGth day of July, 1793, at Salem, in New England, 
at Capt. Edward Allen's, nnd was buried in Mr. Ma- 
son's family vault, aged 42 years, 5 months a)id 2 
days, leaving a widow and f(Mir children, viz: William, 
the future Librarian; Georg(\ the Pliysicinn : Clivis' 
tian, Muhlnip nnd Houorin. 



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Mr. Wm. Logan survived his only son, George, nine 
years, and died in Charleston, June 5th, 1802, aged 75 
years, 4 months and 17 days. His son George was 
was married in Leith, Scotland, on Tuesday, the 28th 
of February, 1775, by the Rev. Wm. Buchan, Minis- 
of St. James' Chapel, to Honoria, the eldest daughter 
of Christian Muldrup, his Danish Majesty's Consul for 
Scotland and North England. William, their son, was 
born on Thursday, evening, 6 o'clock, January 4th, 
1776, in Charter Square, Hoxdown, London, and was 
privately baptized by the Rev. Mr. Crompton of Shore- 
ditch Church, and registered by the Rev. Mr. Smith, 
in- St. Philip's Church, Charleston. 

George, their son, was born in Charleston, January 
4th, 1778, baptized by the Rev. Mr. Smith. 

Honoria, their first daughter, was born September 
21st, 1779, and died an infant. Christian Muldrup, 
born in Charleston, June 29th, 1781, baptized by the 
Rev. Mr. Jenkins ; he died in August, 1856,. and was 
buried in St. Philip's Church yard. 

Honoria Eliza Muldrup, the second daughter, was born 
in Charleston, November 8th, 1783, and was baptized 
by the Rev. Mr. Smith, the future Bishop. 

Mr. William Logan died at the old family house, in 
Archdale-street, after a short illness, of dropsy on the 
chest, the 6th of July, 1854, on Thursday morning, at 
half-past 8 o'clock, aged 78 years, 6 months and 2 days. 
He had been Librarian of the Charleston Library thirty- 
nine years. He was educated for the Bar, and had been, 
in forrfier years, a member of Council, and exhibited, 
throughout his protracted existence, the virtues of a 
^ood citizen and those which beloncr to the domestic and 



34 DAYS OF YORE, OR 

other relations of life. He had married, as his first wife, 
Mary Doughty, daughter of John Webb and his wife 
Mary Doughty, who were married at Mr. Daniel Can- 
non's house in Queen-street, next west of the Planter's 
Hotel, on Tuesday, the 3d of January, 1769. There 
Mary D. Webb was born, the 10th of July, 1778. She 
died June 5th, 1818. Her children were William (who 
intermarried with Miss Mary Ann Young) ; Maitha, 
the widow of Mr. James Coward ; Honoria, the wife of 
Mr. William Howe, of Spartanburg ; and George Chris- 
tian \\ho married Miss Rose Turner. Mr. Wm. Logan's 
second wife was Miss Martha Cannon Webb, a cousin of 
his first wife. She died at her residence in Cannons- 
boro', Sunday night, the 12th of March, 1843, aged 59 
years and ten months, and was buried in St. Philip's 
Yard. She left two children, Mary Webb Logan and 
Edward Charles Logan — the teacher of the Berresford 
Bounty School in St. Thomas' Parish, where he also 
preaches as an Episcopalian minister : being a very good 
and useful man in his generation — the efficient friend 
of the widow and the fatherless, to whom his well-order- 
ed home has proved a safe and happy asylum. Emu- 
lating the virtues of "his forefathers," may he long 
endure as an ornament to the names of Webb and 
Logan. 



SHADOWS or THE PAST. 35 

'•Ah well do we remember those 

Whose names these records bear : 
Who round the hearth-stone used to close, 

After the evening prayer — 
Their happy faces see we yet 

Whilst thrilling memories come ! 
Again that loving group has met 

Within the walls of home ! " G. P. Morris, 

WEBB TABLE. 

John Webb was born on Satnrday, the 22d of Sep- 
tember, 1744, old style : Mary Doughty, on the 28th 
of July, 1749, old style, on Friday. They were mar- 
ried on Tuesday, the 3d of January, 1769, new style, 
at the ages of twenty-five and twenty. This union took 
place at the house of Mr. Daniel Cannon, in Queen 
street, next west of the Planters' Hotel, now known as 
Mrs. McMillan's boarding establishment, but in those 
warm-hearted and romantic times designated as "The 
Mansion of Friendship," whilst his seat on Goose Creek, 
about ten miles from Charleston, bore the inviting ap- 
pellation of "the Happy Retreat." 

Mr. Webb, at that time and long after, resided on 
the north side of Moore-street (now Horlbeck alley), on 
the site of Mr. Paul Pritchard's new house, near which 
the brick kitchen of the "olden time" is yet to be seen, 
in a habitable state. A letter of August 26th, 1797, 
affords the following information : "Perhaps you will be 
surprised when I tell that my father has removed from 
his favorite house in Moore to one in Wentworth-street 
it is more retired and nearer his business ; a very pleas- 
ant situation." The first child of John and Mary 



36 DAYS OF YORE, OR 

Webb was born on Thursday, the 12ih of September, 
1771, new style ; she was called Mary Elizabeth, and 
died on the 24th of August, 1775. Their son William 
was born on Friday, the 4th of December, 1772 ; died 
22d September, 1773, Second son, John, born on 23d 
of December, 1773 ; died 21st of March, 1779. The 
fourth child was Sarah Peronneau, born the 8th of Oc- 
tober, 1775, and died on the 23d of the same month. 
Fifth was Thomas Doughty, 29th of November, 1776, 
and died on the 16th of March, 1779, only five days be- 
fore his brother John, who was then six years of age, 
he three. The sixth child was Mary Doughty ; she 
came into existence on the 10th of July, 1777 ; subse- 
quently became the beloved wife of William Logan (our 
valuble Librarian of thirty-nine years' duration). She 
died on the 5th of June, 1818, as shown in a previous 
table, leaving four children, William, Martha, Honoria 
and George Christian. The widower intermarried with 
her first cousin, Martha Cannon Webb, who died at her 
residence in Cannonsboro' on Sunday night, the 12th 
of March, 1843, aged 59 years and 10 months leaving 
a daughter, Mary Webb, and son, Edward Charles Lo- 
gan. The seventh child was Harriet Pinckney ; she was 
born on the 22d of March, 1781, and died September 
7th, 1782. The eighth and last child was Daniel Can- 
non, who was born on the 11th of July, 1782, and died 
suddenly, yet not unprepared for the awful summon, in 
the year 1850. 

Mr. William Logan and Miss Mary Doughty Webb 
were united in 1798 — he at the age of twenty-two, she 
twenty. A letter of her's, bearing date November 2d, 
1805, to her mother-in-law (^frs. Honoria Logai>), then 



SHADOWS OE THE PAST. 87 

in WilmingtoD, Delaware, (on which she had to pay 25 
cents) postage lies now before me. You shall have a 
part ofits contents : 

"My clear father (Mr. John Webb) is ill indeed. 
Oh ! you do not know, dear mother, how it distresses 
your poor child to witness his situation. Mr. L. will 
take him to Marysville, Goose Creek, as soon as he can 
be removed. We would all accompany them if it was 
not for my brother's wedding, which, I suppose, will 
take place some day this month, although not yet posi- 
tively fixed upon. Mrs. Foster (the charming young 
widow, Mrs. Miles Brewton, of the Revolution) and 
family, have removed up this week, with all her schol- 
ars, from Sullivan's Isle; therefore, we suppose that 
we shall soon hear further of the coming event." 

Another epistle, from the same to the same, dated 
December 8th, 1805, runs thus : 

''The first and most interesting piece of intelligence 
that I have for you, my dear mother, is that my dear 
brother is happily united to his amiable Miss Eliza 
Ladson, and I was so fortunate as to be able to be pres- 
ent on this pleasing occasion, which, you may suppose, 
was no small gratification to me. The bride looked 
very genteel and pretty ; her style was extremely plain 
— nothing but a fine India muslin, without work, trim- 
med with handsome lace around the neck and sleeves, 
with a very wide footing let in the front and sleeves. 
She wore a silk cord and tassel around her waist. 
Her hard-dress was a silk net with two ostrich feathers, 
which was very becoming. The company were socia- 
ble and agreeable. But Mr. Logan tells me he has 
4 



38 DAYS OF YORE, OK 

given HoMoria a particular account of the wedding, so 
that I refer you to his letter. 

'' We have at last prevailed on my aunt (Miss Mar- 
tha Cannon) to give us an evening party next week, 
and Aunt Thomas Doughty also gives one ; and then- 
we are to try our best, poor things ; I don't know how 
we are to make out. How I wish our dear mother 
and the rest of the family were here to join our little 
compa^iy. Your nice present of sweetmeats and nuts 
have come in a most acceptable time. Many thanks to 
you for them. I do not hear of anj other parties in 
agitation. Uncle William Doughty will not give one 
on account of the death of his grandchild, and my val- 
ued friend, Becky Gail lard, has again been visited by 
the hand of affliction in the loss of her dear little boy 
in his fourth year, and has conie to lown to get the 
advice of the physician, her own health having failed. 
Even I ventured to dance at the wedding ; having no 
other brother to be married, how could I avoid it? I 
send you some of my new ratifia to drink with the 
cake, as my good man intends sending his piece, lie 
and Cousin Martha Webb are both so sleepy that they 
are hurrying me to finish. The children (William and 
Martha) thank grandmother for the nuts. Our broth- 
er C. M. Logan's wife (Sarah Chanlcr) looks well, and 
is in fine spirits." 

In 1806 she writes : 

" We see by the paper that Major Snipes is dead ; 
it is really astonishing how that family is dropping oif. 
(He was the parent of Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Cochran, and 
the two Mrs. Fishburns, noble ladies all in after life.) 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 39 

Sally Capers is at last mtrried to Dr. Jersey; also, 
Miss Dawson to Dr. George Hall." 

He was the brother of Mrs. Ingraham; they were 
the parents of Dr. John Dawson Hall, who Avas first 
united to Septima Thayer, and left as his widow, Mary, 
a daughter of Col. John Bryan and Eliza C. Legar^.) 
'' We dined at Goose Creek, last week, wdth Mrs. Ma- 
zyck. Jane Smith is with her aunt. Poor girl, she 

is really in bad health, and I suspect that is what pre- 
vents her wedding taking place."' She became the 
wife of her first cousin (Mr. Thomas Stock) that Spring 
(1806), went to Pennsylvania with her aunt, Mrs. 
Thompson, and the Misses Elizabeth and Polly Ann 
Smith. The sufferer ended her youthful days at Ger- 
mantown, seven miles from Philadelphia. Mr. and 
Mrs. Stock were the grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. 
Young, who gave the name to the bridge that formerly 
crossed the creek where Water-street now stands. 

We will return to the old gentleman, Mr. Webb, who 
had lost his wife Mary Doughty, on the 23d of Octo- 
ber, 1782 — aged 33 years, 2 months and 24 days. 
When the future Mrs. Logan was only five years old, 
she passed into the family of her grandfather Daniel 
Cannon, and under the especial care of that best of wo- 
men, Miss Martha Cannon. On the 30th of March, 
1786, Mr. Webb took as his second partner in life 
Elizabeth Legar^. Their son John was born January 
29th, 1787, and died July 3d, 1787. Their daughter 
Sarah Peronneau was born October 24th, 1778. She 
intermarried with her cousin Joseph Legar^, and died 
in 1830. ' Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, the mother, died Sep- 
tember 28th, 1789. Mr. John Webb, the above "pater 



10 DAYS OF TORE, OR 

familia,' died suddenly on his v^nj from Columbia to 
Charleston, on Monday, the 28th of December, 1807, 
and his lifeless body carried home to his family by the 
man-servant travellins; with his master. 

Mr. Webb had attained to the age of 63 years and 2 
months. The days of his life were not few, his thin 
hair was now waxing gray, and many a bitter grief had 
fallen to his lot; yet how overwhelming to his relatives 
and wide circle of friends was this crushing calamity I 
Yet it is not for us to question, but adore, the workings 
of Providence, and to go forth, convinced that He who 
does all things well, is too wise to err, and too good to 
be unkind. Rudely were the confiding hearts of his 
children and others torn asunder and ravished with 
wild and aching grief, by this afflictive stroke, yet they 
bowed in humble submission beneath the rod. 

The Ancient Lady. 



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Thursday Morning, February 21, 1861. 

The obituary column of to-day's Courier informs his 
numerous friends that the venerable and esteemed Dr. 
George Logan has passed into the spirit-land. 

We can add nothing to the warm and touching trib- 
ute. Dr. Logan was beloved for his many virtues, and 
among the excellencies that beautified his character 
none shone with brighter lustre than integrity and ten- 
derness. His calm passage across the dark river was 
in fine keeping with the smooth and even course of his 
life. 



MEDICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

At the regular meeting of this Society, held on March 
1st, 1861, the following preamble and resolutions were 
offered : A few months since, this Society was assem- 
bled to render the last tribute of respect and affection 
to one of its most esteemed and useful members. A- 
gain, death has entered our circle, and stricken down a 
venerable father of the profession — the next senior 
member of our Society — Dr. George Logan — who de- 
parted this life in the City of Ne\v Orleans, on Wednes- 
day, the 13th ultimo, in the 84th year of his age. 

Dr. Logan was a native of this City, and passed near- 
ly his whole life here. After completing his academic 
course, he commenced the study of medicine in the of- 
fice of Dj*. Tucker Harris, one of the founders of the 
Medical Society ; and after u thorough probationary 
course, ho received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, 



42 DAYS OF YORE, OR 

and Avas graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 
in the spring of 1801. 

Soon after he returned to his native city and com- 
menced the practice of his profession, and obtained a 
respectable share of the patronage and confidence of 
his fellow-citizens. He was elected a member of the 
Medical Society on April 1st, 1803. During the war 
of 1812 he received the commission of Post Surgeon in 
the Navy of the United States, and was stationed in 
this city, receiving wounded and sick seamen in a pri- 
vate hospital provided for that purpose. The duties of 
this position he discharged with that humane devotion 
and skill which was peculiar to his character and feel- 
ings. He continued to hold the commission in the Na- 
vy until the year 1829, when he resigned. 

For several years he was elected by the City Council 
as Physician to several of the city Institutions, and for 
a period of forty-four years consecutively, he was the 
kind, benevolent, and esteemed Physician of the Orphan 
House. His unprecedented success as a practitioner 
of medicine in that iitstitution is well remembered in 
this community. The blandness of his manner, the 
parental, affectionate intercourse with his patients, and 
more particularly with the inmates of the institu- 
tion, were peculiar and striking to observers, and is 
most eloquently and touchingly sketched by the hon- 
ored and venerable Chairman of the institution, whose 
constant official connection with our departed friend 
for many years, is a faithful eulogy of his worth : 

"From much and long intercourse with him, I learn- 
ed to appreciate the mild forbearance, benevolence of 
his temper, the purity and high moral motives of his 



SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 43 

every action,and the elevated Christian principles which 
pervaded and adorned his whole character. His ten- 
derness and condescending kindness to the little inmates 
of the Orphan House, as their phjsician,have often ex- 
cited my admiration and taught me a lesson of humility, 
while his judicious, successful professional management 
of disease commanded my respect. At the time of his 
resignation from the institution, in consequence of in- 
increasing infirmities of age, he left but one feeling 
amid its inmates, old and young, and that sentimen't 
was of universal regret at parting with their friend and 
benefactor." 

Amongst his private patients and students he man- 
ifested the same benevolent, affectionate intercourse, in- 
spiring a sentiment of admiration and filial regard to- 
wards the good and Christian phhscian. He has 
finished his work, and like the Patriarch of old, ''he 
fell asleep at the setting of the sun," and was transla- 
ted to the ''Spirit Land." Be it therefore. 

Resolved, That the Medical Society of South Carolina have learn- 
ed with deep regret of the death of the late Dr. Gkorge Logan, one 
of the oldest members of this Society. 

Resolved, That the Medical Society will wear the usual badge of 
mourning for (heir venerable brother. 

Resolved, That these proceedings be recorded on the minutes of 
the Society, and a copy signed by the officers, and sent to the fam- 
ily of the deceased. 

On motion, the preamble and resolutions were un- 
animously adopted and ordered to be published in the 
daily papers. 

D. J. CAIN, M. D., 

President M. S. 
F. LeJau Parkek, M. D., Secretary. 



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